Save our boys without being anti-girl

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'I just finished reading “Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men,” written by Dr. Leonard Sax after years of seeing sullen boys in his medical practice fail to thrive.

“From kindergarten to college, (boys are) less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere 20 years ago. In fact, a third of men ages 22-34 are still living at home with their parents — about a 100 percent increase in the past 20 years,” Sax wrote. His book came out in 2007, when my own two sons were far from adolescence and hadn’t yet developed a visceral hatred of school. The numbers are even higher today.

In “Boys Adrift,” Sax identified several factors creating a toxic environment for boys that is driving their decline: a misguided overemphasis on reading and math as early as kindergarten, too much time playing hyper-real video games, an overreliance on medication for attention deficit disorders and a popular-culture devaluation of masculinity.'