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What is the Boy Crisis?
Boys are suffering from fatherless households, declining life expectancy coupled
with suicide, crime, declining education, lack of purpose and compounding these
issues is Socialy raiser boys that expressing themselves is weak and accusins
them of male privilege
Crime: Fatherlessness creates susceptibility for joining gangs, committing
violent Crimes, and dropping out of school.
1% increase in fatherlessness predicts 3% rise in adolescent violence
•
Consequencer
Purpose Void: Erosion of traditional male roles and lack of viable alternative
Feeling compelled
to
pursue
finccial
success at
of health and time
expense
with family.
.
Japanse saying: “A good husband is healthy but absent.”
•Isolation Excessive gaming porn addiction, social with draw!
Hero Paradar: Self-worth through self-sacrifice, expense of well-being
Societal Neglect
Prioritize male disposability while overlooking their vulnerabilities
Gender empathy gap
• Diminisher recognition of men’s struggles
Idea they should silently endere hardship
•Lack of institutional support
·Maternal custody bias
· Toxic masculinity
Financial Success Self-worth
Mass Shooters & Crime: Strong corcolation with fatherless homes.
Suicide:. more people die each
year
natural disasters Combined.
Men commit suicide four times higher than femates.
→ That’s three timer more.
than the Great Depression
Education: 61% us. 39% college degrees. Lag behind literacy.
Prison: 93% of prison pop. is mes.
Men recieve
63% longer sentences compared to women
.
.
Health: 92% work place fatalities involve male workers.
Fendles have a life expectancy 7% higher than males. +5.8
Equalizing male morality rates would outweigh curing Concer
yrs
Consequences
Role of Fathers: Child development: Rough housing, boundary enforcement, self-discipline, resilience
.
· Higher self-esteem & less anxiety
Fatherlessness 18% in 1980 →
40% in 2022
Bisks! Substance abuse, academic failure, social isolation, violence, incarceration, poverty
Heath: Telomeres: Protective caps on ends of chromosomes
.
• 14% Shorter compared to children with present fathers
· Reduced life expectancy.
.
Cast to the Nation: Father absence costs $99.8 billion annually
981 billion for prisons
State of Boys
.
Wornen: Education disparity
Solutions
.
Conclusion
from suicide than war, homicide and
Hypergamy: Unable to find partner of equal social status
.
.
Solutions
Conclusions
.
on average
Vocational education
Recess
Prioritize long-term well-being over short-term sccrifice
·more equitable and compassionate world.
Empower boys