Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
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Something scary is happening to boys today. From cr?che to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation excise has widened dramatically. While Emily is effective hard at school and getting A’s, her brother Justin is goofing off. He’s more concerned about getting to the next level in his videogame than about finishing his homework. Now, Dr. Leonard Sax delves into the scientific literature and draws on more than twenty years of clinical experience to clarify why boys and young men are failing in school and disengaged at home. He shows how social, cultural, and biological factors have made an environment that is factually toxic to boys. He also presents practical solutions, sharing strategies which educators have establish effective in re-engaging these boys at school, as well as handy tips for parents about everything from homework, to videogames, to tablets.
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Not very informative – written by a source that should have offered more helpful info – I’m dissapointed!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
THe leader is right about the “new” phenomenon with boys in this country. He shows a convincing number of studies that point to a crisis for the new generation of male children. But he got five factors that according to him are the cause of this problem. Nobody can argue that new rules at public schools are punishing boys, specially active, creative individuals who have problems conforming to rigid rules. The influence of video games is another situation that certanly is changing active personas into passive objects. But the charge against prescription drugs is a mistake. It’s right that there is a trend to over medicate unrully children and to try to control them with drugs. But this is an effect of the additional factors and not a cause. The charge against endocrin disrupors is appealing but it doesn’t clarify why it affects mainly boys and not girls as well as adults.
I reflect Boys Adrift is excellent step in rising the awarnes of a social problem but it fails fleeting in touching additional factors that are behind the crisis in a segment of our population. The problem with young males is being made by a society that is oriented to maximize profits at any cost even if that includes the promotion of antisocial composition, games, movies, drinks and additional products that affect mainly the weakes sector of our society. Dr. Sax expound vital facts about this assault to our society but in my opinion falls fleeting to see what’s behind the problem. Sorry to say what’s behind is even more problematic because to fix this problem requires more than an educational reform and responsable paretns spying their children.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
At the time I was reading this book, I had the opportunity to be a chaperone on an eighth and ninth grade meadow trip for my son’s band class. About 75 students, about half boys and half girls, attended this all day meadow trip for a band convention with middle school students from additional area schools. I had just been reading Dr. Sax’s thought that boys are smaller and less developed than in the past due to chemicals similar to female hormones in plastics. Dr. Sax says he has really experimental this–that boys are smaller and less developed than they used to be. I hadn’t been consciously thinking about this, but as I rode on the bus I ongoing to reflect how my son had grown in the last several years (he is nearly 14) and then how the additional kids were growing up. As I looked around the bus, and later the convention, I was struck by difference in the world as described by Dr. Sax and the reality I was seeing around me. Yes, the girls had grown up, but most of the 13, 14, and 15 year ancient boys I saw were taller, wider in the shoulders, and just larger all around. They didn’t look like small boys (as Dr. Sax says), but rather could be physically described as “young men.”
Dr. Sax includes no statistical information to support his thought that boys are smaller and less developed than before. This is curious because this kind of information is routinely collected and compiled. I looked and quickly establish a study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, presenting the data on growth patterns from 1962-5 through 2002: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347.pdf
For the 12 – 17 male age group the statistics show that weight has increased, but height has as well over this 40 year period. So how can boys be getting smaller as Dr. Sax claims?
Both my personal experience and the national statistics demonstrate that the leader is adrift in his own theory and is coming up with the “facts” he needs to clarify his theory rather than observing the right facts and coming up with a theory to clarify the facts. If this is the case for plastics, how much can we trust about the leader’s observations on additional points?
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
I really loved “Why Gender Matters” by Dr. Sax. I establish some practical things I could do to help raise my boys.
This book is basically “due to chemicals, brain changes, etc, young boys are ruined forever.” I don’t judge that! Amusing thing is that Dr. Sax himself talks about a boy who changed schools and turned around. I don’t reflect animal studies are the final word in humans. There may be physical characteristics in common but our brains are obviously different.
This book is not a lot of help for anyone who has a teenage son. “Why Gender Matters” is better.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
Thank you for your prompt attention to this order. Was just as described. Gail Rader
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5