Is it possible to raise boys without men? Sure. Is it right? You may find your answer by imagining a male-authored book titled: "Raising Girls Without Women."
Research indicates that boys and girls raised by single fathers are more successful than boys or girls raised by single mothers.
My boys are both very successful human beings and one of them is a genius who is 19 years old and two years ahead of the curve at university, while holding down a full time job and supporting himself and helping out his auntie who boards him.
They are both Real Men, critical thinkers, great sense of humour, and capable of earning a good living and contributing to society. Neither has ever been arrested or in any trouble, and they don't use drugs; neither has fathered a child out of wedlock or married-and-run-away. I have a lot of married friends who can't say the same.
It has been my experience that dumb men like dumb women, and smart men like dumb women. Even back in the 1950s we were cautioned never to allow a man to find out that we were more intelligent than they are, and always to allow them to take credit for our work, our ideas, our success and every facet of our family, because they just can't stand a woman who 'competes'.
I have always said that I will get married when I meet a man who is more of a man than I am. So far I have met parasites, control freaks, a perfectly wonderful younger man who was so far under his father's thumb that he allowed Daddy to pick his wife for him (and I told him that Daddy would eventually run away with her) and one spoiled brat that even my mother (who would welcome Godzilla to the family if only he'd marry me) did not like.
There are plenty of good men in the world. They are generally married to someone else.