22 Stats That Prove That There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Young Men In America

22 Stats That Prove That There Is Something Seriously Wrong With Young Men In America

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...

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.

#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.

I’m not underestimating anything; I could never look my wife/sons in their faces if one of them came home in a bag from serving. Should I tell them that their son/brother died for foodstamps for all? Should I tell them he died for legislated atheism/forcing OUR CHURCH to provide birth control (which is abortion - it flushes out fertilized eggs - which if you are married to Prince William, is already a “baby”)? Should I tell he died so some Marine could propose to another man in the White House? Should I tell them he died so that West Point’s chapel could host it’s first “gay marriage”?

The last American men that believed in those principles you espouse died in gray uniforms when their government invaded their states that had LEGALLY seceded from the “Union”. They thought they were “Americans”, fighting 80 years later against the British again. In the meantime, “Obama-phone” cows in Cleveland, Newark, Detroit, Philly, etc. every year thank those young men in blue for their scarifices. /s

Lol....he thinks?

I know

Have dealt with under grad and law admissions for my girls of late

Extra slots for girls and ANY OTHER MINORITY as well

U name it

That poster is uninformed

Tulane saves slots for women as do natural sciences

Anywhere chicks lag

Back in 2005, I did some research on admissions at top universities using stats from the College Board . White men (at some Ivy league schools make that Christian white men) were discriminated against while white women were the number one affirmative action group.

What you say sounds plausible until you find that admissions is geared towards or actually done department by department. The fields that I found discriminate heavily are math, chemistry, physics, engineering, computer science, medical school and I'll assume any other technical field. They're trying for a 50/50 ratio because it's an accepted (Marxist) idea is that theres no difference between men and women and disparity is the result of class privilege.

Of course that's nonsense, men overwhelmingly test better at math and science and always have. One professor admitted privately that most women let into his top program are struggling and instructors are slowing things down to help them catch up. American education has been fubared.

I tacitly agree, however apathy is what has gotten us where we are now. If good Americans abandon the fight we are permanently lost. What ever happens in the future, whether it be resolved via civil awakening achieved by a massive financial/moral abyss or an actual armed conflict (which in that case even if we win back our republic there is no winner regardless of outcome based simply on the loss of life for our sons/daughters and us, I will fight regardless of age, and infrastructure damage) we need to keep the ability to influence and reacquire leadership and assets.

Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer applies now more than ever.

At the universities I am most familiar with (large state universities in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast), the majority of undergraduate admissions decisions are made at the university level. The exceptions are admissions decisions by so-called “professional schools” within universities like engineering and architecture. None is made by individual departments, at least at the undergraduate level.

Most universities I know about would love to have a 50-50 male to female ratio, mainly for social reasons. (When there are too many women relative to men, major problems arise that I will leave to your imagination, but which are well-documented.) Unfortunately, these universities see many more highly qualified female applicants than male applicants, except (as you point out) in engineering.

I was a single mom with a son, and as a Freeper, I was very exposed to the dangers that would face him (not the same dangers as my other single mom peers, but dangers such as “mama’s boy-ism”, bad grades, anti-social behaviors, etc) so I put him in Cub Scouts in first grade (my father was very involved in his life, but was not a rough and tumble kind of guy). I ended up remarrying an Eagle Scout who is a fantastic father to my older two kids and the two we had together. They went to Northern Tier two summers ago and my son came back so prepared and mature, I can’t praise it enough. Scouts has been wonderful for my son (though he is embarrassed to talk about it to most of his friends because of the stigma for an almost 15 year old). The two of them will be going to Philmont next summer. My husband and his dad went when he was my son’s age and said it was a life defining experience. I am very excited for them both!
I have told my son that he is in Scouts until he achieves his Eagle, too. My other three kids are girls, and I wish Girl Scouts was anything like the Boy Scouts!!! I found it was nothing but a year long cookie drive. Sigh.

My post addressed undergraduate admissions, not admission to grad school or law school. I can assure you that most colleges and universities struggle mightily to keep the undergraduate male/female ratio from becoming too low. There are many reasons for wanting a reasonably balanced number of males and females on a college campus (social problems created by sex ratio imbalance, future alumni donations, etc.). The admissions offices would like to give preference to males but are prohibited in most states and by federal court cases from doing so. If you don't believe me, call or email the undergraduate admissions office of your nearby state university. The fact is that parents and our K-12 schools are failing to prepare boys for college and, more generally, adulthood. I witnessed it in our daughter's high school class. The vast majority of high achievers (the top 10-15%) were girls, although the valedictorian was a boy. This is a problem that began back in the 1980s and continues to the present.

Your legacy is what you left behind. Your children and grandchildren will be paying for your retirement and yet their future is not as bright as yours. How does that make you feel? Do you feel guilty? You should.

http://econperspectives.blogspot.jp/2012/02/baby-boomers-most-selfish-generation.html

“In 1981, about the time that baby boomers became leaders in both the public and private sectors, public policies were implemented that have led to a current public debt that exceeds 15 trillion dollars. So in the past 31 years, while baby boomers have been running things, the U.S. public debt has increased by more than 14 trillion dollars. In other words, over the past three decades, the United States has consumed 14 trillion dollars of government services we have not paid for and that we will pass to future generations.

For those of you who were born after 1964, I have two words for you …. You’re welcome. …. 15 trillion dollars of debt (and still counting) … that’s our gift to future generations.”

The problems with the public debt have been driven by two main things, entitlement and defense spending. Defense spending is what it is. I’m sure cuts could be made, but when you are the policeman of the world it gets expensive. An argument can be made whether that is a proper role for us, but as of now it is a reality. The entitlement spending problem is driven by SS and Medicare both programs that were set up by generations previous to ours and both were based on faulty logic. My mother, rest her soul, paid into SS for about four years, but drew off it for 30, her 96 y/o sister is still collecting. They both had very expensive medical procedures paid for in large part by MC that extended their lives by years for which were all thankful, but they weren’t free. They are not abberations. When MC was proposed we were told it would never cost more than a few hundred billion at most. We know how that turned out. I was 13 at the time. No one asked me to vote on SS or Medicare. If they had I would have voted against both of them simply because their premises were flawed. I did vote twice against the man who brought us record smashing debt the last 5 years and a whole new entitlement that we can’t afford. Based on exit polls so did most of my boomer colleagues. Your generation, I’m making assumptions here based on your comments, however voted for him overwhelmingly. As for your 1981 comment, the oldest boomer at the time would have been 35 hardly the age of major players in the seats of power. If your going to attack a whole generation get your facts straight. I know for a fact that boomers are the first sandwich generation. We care enough about our parents to help them in their old age while still providing financial support, free baby sitting and often a place to come home to for our ungrateful 21-40 y/o children who blame all the ills of their miserable lives on their parents who they can’t wait to see live the stage, permanently. You sound like one of them.

I am hardly apathetic; I just don’t have any misconceptions about what our military has been reduced to. After throwing away those lives overseas (”throwin away” because we acheived nothing), we don’t even have the will to purge our own country of the Muslim extremists within our borders, or even to use our military to protect our borders. The fact that Muslims are now attacking US military personnel IN OUR OWN COUNTRY doesn’t seem to have people as angry as I’d expect them to be...

“...enjoy your retirement old man.”

There’s another thing about you whiney little pissants. Besides blaming your elders for all your troubles, your gimme attitude and your expectations that somebody owes you something for just being here, your complete lack of respect for your parents generation is appalling.

So don’t expect me to shut up or give up my SocSec check that I paid into for 50 years. It’s mine, understand? And don’t expect my taxes to buy your new video game player, you worthless POS!

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