Here's a clue.
Posted on 12/18/2012 10:50:49 AM PST by blam
22 Stats That Prove That There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Young Men In America
By Michael Snyder
December 17th, 2012
When are we finally going to admit that we have a very serious problem with this generation of young men in America? We have failed them so dramatically that it is hard to put it into words. We have raised an entire generation of young males that don't know how to be men, and many of them feel completely lost. Sometimes they feel so lost that they "snap" in very destructive ways. Adam Lanza and James Holmes are two names that come to mind. Why is it that mass murderers are almost always young men? Why don't young women behave the same way? Sadly, Adam Lanza and James Holmes are just the tip of the iceberg of a much larger problem in our society. Our young women vastly outperform our young men in almost every important statistical category. Young men are much more likely to perform poorly in school, they are much more likely to have disciplinary problems and they are much more likely to commit suicide.
In the old days, our young men would gather in the streets or in the parks to play with one another after school, but today most of them are content to spend countless hours feeding their addictions to video games, movies and other forms of entertainment. When our young men grow up, many of them are extremely averse to taking on responsibility. They want to have lots of sex, but they aren't interested in marriage. They enjoy the comforts of living at home, but they don't want to go out and pursue career goals so that they can provide those things for themselves. Our young men are supposed to be "the leaders of tomorrow", but instead many of them are a major burden on society. When are we finally going to admit that something has gone horribly wrong?
There is even a name for this generation of young men that does not want to grow up. It is called the "Peter Pan generation". They want to enjoy the benefits of being grown up without ever taking on the responsibilities. A member of this "Peter Pan generation" recent wrote an article for the Daily Mail in which he discussed what he and his friends are going through...
I haven’t yet had to grow up so, well, I haven’t.
Reckless, irresponsible and immature? Yes. But at least I can take comfort in the fact I am not alone.
Last week, I read that there is even a name for people such as me. We are the ‘Peter Pan generation’; a sizeable group of 25 to 40-year-olds who exist in a state of extended adolescence, avoiding the trappings of responsibility — marriage, mortgage, children — for as long as possible.
‘Our society is full of lost boys and girls hanging out at the edge of adulthood,’ says Professor Frank Furedi, a sociologist who has been studying this phenomenon, at the University of Kent.
‘Another word sometimes used to describe these people is “adultescent” — generally defined as someone who refuses to settle down and make commitments, and who would rather go on partying into middle age.’ Young men in America didn't always behave this way. Several decades ago, men in America moved away from home, got married and had children much earlier than they do now. But the young men of today seem to want to put off the "markers of adulthood" for as long as possible. The following is from an outstanding article by Sandy Hingston...
Sociologists cite five “markers” or “milestones” that have traditionally defined our notion of adulthood: finishing school, moving away from the parental home, becoming financially independent, getting married, and having a child. In 1960, 65 percent of men had ticked off all five by age 30; by 2000, only a third had. The experts have plenty of explanations for what’s come to be called “extended adolescence” or “emerging adulthood”—or what New York Times columnist David Brooks calls the “Odyssey Years.” They blame helicopter parents, the burden of student loan debt, much higher poverty rates among young people (nearly half of all Americans ages 25 to 34 live below the national level), and a dearth of vo-tech training and manufacturing jobs. Almost 60 percent of parents are now giving money to their grown kids—an average of $38,340 per child in the years between ages 18 and 34. Whatever happened to the son looking after his mom? So why is all of this happening?
Well, there are a whole host of reasons. But certainly parents and our education system have to bear much of the blame. In the old days, young men were taught what it means to "be a man", and morality was taught to young men both by their parents and in the schools. But today, most young men have very little understanding of what "manhood" is, and our society has taught them that morality doesn't really matter. Instead, television and movies constantly portray young men as sex-obsessed slackers that just want to party all the time, so that is what many of our young men have become.
How much better off would our society be if we had trained this generation of young men to love, honor, protect and take care of others?
How much better off would our society be if we had nurtured the manhood of our young men instead of teaching them to be ashamed of it?
How much better off would our society be if we had disciplined our young men and taught them morality when they were getting off track instead of just letting them do whatever they wanted?
The following are 22 stats that prove that there is something seriously wrong with young men in America today...
#1 Males account for approximately 70 percent of all Ds and Fs in U.S. public schools.
#2 About two-thirds of all students in "special education programs" are boys.
#3 The average American girl spends 5 hours a week playing video games. The average American boy spends 13 hours a week playing video games.
#4 The average young American will spend 10,000 hours playing video games before the age of 21.
#5 One study discovered that 88 percent of all Americans between the ages of 8 and 18 play video games, and that video game addiction is approximately four times as common among boys as it is among girls.
#6 At this point, 15-year-olds that attend U.S. public schools do not even rank in the top half of all industrialized nations when it comes to math or science literacy.
#7 In 2011, SAT scores for young men were the worst that they had been in 40 years.
#8 According to a survey conducted by the National Geographic Society, only 37 percent of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 can find the nation of Iraq on a map.
#9 According to the New York Times, approximately 57 percent of all young people enrolled at U.S. colleges are women.
#10 It is being projected that women will earn 60 percent of all Bachelor's degrees from U.S. universities by the year 2016.
#11 Even if they do graduate from college, most of our young men still can't find a decent job. An astounding 53 percent of all Americans with a bachelor's degree under the age of 25 were either unemployed or underemployed during 2011.
#12 Pornography addiction is a major problem among our young men. An astounding 30 percent of all Internet traffic now goes to pornography websites, and one survey found that 25 percent of all employees that have Internet access in the United States even visit sex websites while they are at work.
#13 In the United States today, 47 percent of all high school students have had sex.
#14 The United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate on the entire planet. If our young men behaved differently this would not be happening.
#15 In the United States today, one out of every four teen girls has at least one sexually transmitted disease. If our young men were not sex-obsessed idiots running around constantly looking to "score" these diseases would not be spreading like this.
#16 Right now, approximately 53 percent of all Americans in the 18 to 24 year old age bracket are living at home with their parents.
#17 According to one survey, 29 percent of all Americans in the 25 to 34 year old age bracket are still living with their parents.
#18 Young men are nearly twice as likely to live with their parents as young women the same age are.
#19 Overall, approximately 25 million American adults are living with their parents in the United States right now according to Time Magazine.
#20 Today, an all-time low 44.2% of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 are married.
#21 Back in 1950, 78 percent of all households in the United States contained a married couple. Today, that number has declined to 48 percent.
#22 Young men are about four times more likely to commit suicide as young women are.
But we've had crazy people forever. We've had semi-auto weapons and high capacity magazines for over a century. Why is it then that this trend has now started and is accelerating? I believe that the violent visual media play a large part, especially when they come to serve as an alternative reality for the socially maladjusted and withdrawn schizoid personality types, as seems to be the common thread in too many of these cases.
And yes, these are available to youth in other countries, but I remain unconvinced that they are as saturated in it as are American youth. Perhaps someone can show me some studies to prove me wrong, but it seems to me that the pathology is proportionate to the time spent in these media.
...ping....
Here's a clue.
That Norwegian murderer of 70 kids was into that.
The so-called “Greatest Generation” did an AMAZING job of executing the war effort.
With obvious exceptions:
After that, they ROALLY SUCKED at raising my parents’ generation. In turn, my parents’ generation has done a very selfish job of raising my generation. My generation is continuing the spiral.
In three generations, the priorities and purpose for existence have been completely changed to reflect the self-idolization that now exists.
That’s the problem with generalizations. In this case, the other problem is that they are 60% right.
I’m stuck on the “ 1 out of every 4 teen girls has an Std.” They didn’t t getty those from standing in the corner. Girls morals are not what they used to be either. Boys aren’t the only ones to blame.
BS I’m 61 and have been working since I was 12. I went to college, got married, never used drugs nor did I attend Woodstock which I’m sure you absolutely know as a fact we all did. I am so tired of the media and those that listen to them putting all Boomers into one big group of ex hippie, free love, libertines who abandoned our children while we went out to find ourselves and build our careers on Wall Street. Every Boomer I’m related to or know is just like me. Hardworking, God fearing, people just trying to make it the world while raising good kids. And the children of those people are all now in their 30’s, most are married, all are employed and most have children. So get over your Boomer envy and get a life.
You nailed it! The worst thing that ever happened to this country was the takeover of education by government. If you want to save the males, do away with the current system of education. There is no reason for schools to be run the same way they were 100 years ago, and what we need is education tailored to the individual student, not a herd of kids of the same age marching lock-step through 12 years in an institution that resembles prison more than anything else.
See the books How Children Fail by John Holt and the books by Raymond Moore - School Can Wait and Better Late than Early. You may not agree with everything they say, but in many ways, they capture what is wrong with schools today.
And middle class parents being persuaded that pre-schools are a good idea is also a disaster. Pre-schools merely teach kids to follow their peers and how to endure being bored witless by some educrat designed program.
The reason government schools exist is primarily to provide subsidized day care for working parents. If a schoo’s real purpose was to educate children, most kids would be finished with high school material long before they turned 18.
Do not blame boys. Blame the adult males that have failed terribly as fathers.
Do not blame boys. Blame the adult males that have failed terribly as fathers.
No, they are not right.
I am good friends with two baby boomers who fit the stereotype - one who was a hippie and one who went to Woodstock. The first guy is one of the most hardworking, moral people I’ve ever known and the second has gone to work for Catholic Charities and is a very decent person with an intact family. PEOPLE GROW UP.
Most of the people who caused the trouble (like William Ayers, Jane Fonda) were of a different generation.
Baby boomers that I know were the ones who saved the golden age of Hollywood - loving the movies of their youth while Generation X whined: “They’re boring. They’re too slow. They’re in black and white.” Thanks to my fellow baby boomers, I can now enjoy the great American films of the 20th Century in the privacy of my home.
And, again, let us not forget all those names on the Wall in Washington, D.C.
No, they are not right.
I am good friends with two baby boomers who fit the stereotype - one who was a hippie and one who went to Woodstock. The first guy is one of the most hardworking, moral people I’ve ever known and the second has gone to work for Catholic Charities and is a very decent person with an intact family. PEOPLE GROW UP.
Most of the people who caused the trouble (like William Ayers, Jane Fonda) were of a different generation.
Baby boomers that I know were the ones who saved the golden age of Hollywood - loving the movies of their youth while Generation X whined: “They’re boring. They’re too slow. They’re in black and white.” Thanks to my fellow baby boomers, I can now enjoy the great American films of the 20th Century in the privacy of my home.
And, again, let us not forget all those names on the Wall in Washington, D.C.
“It’s not video games, it’s not Hollywood movies, it’s not music, it’s not the availability of weapons, it’s not that these white kids like to speak Ebonics.”
Maybe it is the fact that their ethnicity and gender put opportunity out of reach for them; that is how the destruction of black males was explained.
“Instead, they medicate them, babysit them with video games and TVs, and marginalize them as revenge for their father’s perceived shortcomings.”
Now the next generation of women are pissed off because the products of such upbringing are too smart to get married.
“Colleges are desperate to bring into closer equality the numbers of males and females who enroll.”
Simply untrue (and omitting the racial factor).
“Make sure they respect their mother.”
If they respect their father they’ll behave better.
“Teach them to be respectful of women and look out for them and the weak.”
Respectful of women? Sure. Look out for them? Really? Do you work with women? They look out for themselves just fine; have sons look out for their peers.
My sons are younger, but they won’t be donning a uniform for the country that marginalizes them.
“but reflect the deterioration of socializing institutions like the family, the military, and the Boy Scouts, but especially the diminished role of fathers and other male role models in the lives of these young boys.”
They reflect the outlawing of public displays of our Judeo-Christian heritage; it is as simple as that.
“One of the most damaging pathologies of American society is the fatherless family.”
Brought to you by the generosity of Uncle Sam; it was a deliberate war on the nuclear family, and it was successful beyond their wildest dreams. Now they rue the fact that all of the “replacement families” are dark and either speak accented English or some other language altogether.
I recently went through a bank drive-through window; where they normally have lollipops for kids they now also have dog biscuits. See, the tellers (ALL “replacement Americans”) can give dog biscuits to the “American” customers for their families, while the “replacement Americans” get lollipops for their families. In 10 years they won’t need the dog biscuits anymore; those people will be ancient history (as the Lenape Indians before them in NJ).
“At every level of schooling, girls are now out-performing boys in the classroom despite having no advantage in ability or aptitude. This performance gap ultimately carries over to the college application process, where girls’ high-school GPAs are, on average, higher than boys’ (even though the very top applicants at most colleges are still disproportionately boys).”
I find that very hard to believe; I haven’t been in school in decades, but I have sons that are, and I see their peers. Just admit that females are handed a lot of advantages, and men have reacted to that by simply letting it run its course. We can have a whole nation of ditch-digging men, supervised by aging spinsters, and the culture dies and is replaced by another (or several) with no such vision of the role of females. The Hispanics, Muslims, and Hindus pouring into this country EVERY DAY are having an impact, and these people are not so “enlightened”. They are inheriting the Earth, because God will not be mocked by what the West has done with His bounty. Their children are filling our maternity wards and schoolyards, and they are winning without firing a shot. They are proving that in fact, you CAN’T HAVE IT ALL. They choose “guns” (children); Americans choose “butter” (new cars, pets).
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