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Today, many of these young men, poised between adolescence and adulthood, are more likely to feel anxious and uncertain. In college, they party hard but are soft on studying. They slip through the academic cracks, another face in a large lecture hall, getting by with little effort and less commitment. After graduation, they drift aimlessly from one dead-end job to another, spend more time online playing video games and gambling than they do on dates (and probably spend more money too), “hook up” occasionally with a “friend with benefits,” go out with their buddies, drink too much, and save too little. After college, they perpetuate that experience and move home or live in group apartments in major cities, with several other guys from their dorm or fraternity. They watch a lot of sports. They have grandiose visions for their futures and not a clue how to get from here to there. When they do try and articulate this amorphous uncertainty, they’re likely to paper over it with a simple “it’s all good.”

Except for the video stuff, you could have overlaid this quote on any random generation. How much was paid for this study?

In college, they party hard but are soft on studying. They slip through the academic cracks, another face in a large lecture hall, getting by with little effort and less commitment. After graduation, they drift aimlessly from one dead-end job to another

Say what???

lol I was thinking the same thing

Girls live in Guyland, but they do not define it. They contend with it and make their peace with it, each in their own way.
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I agree!

In the seventies I matriculated in a highly competitive graduate school for a health profession. I was one of 14 women in a school of 600 men-children. Wow! Talk about “guyland”! I did graduate but it was definitely a unique and unforgettable experience dealing with so many “men-kids”.

Thankfully, I did find a wonderful husband ( not from “Guyland” or my graduate school). We have been married 26 years and have 4 delightful adult children who are strong in the gospel. I took 8 years off from my profession to homeschool these children. We are grandparents to 10 beautiful grandchildren.

My husband's sister called just last week. She asked if her 19 year old son, who is the quintessential “man-child” living in Guyland, could come to live with us. Ten years ago my husband had advised her to take her son out of government school and homeschool him. She didn't take his advice then and now wants us to correct the problem she and her husband created. Are we going to do this? No way! The damage can not be undone at this point short of a religious conversion.

If kids are socialized by other kids they will learn to be kids! One of the best ways to do that is to institutionalize you child along with other same aged kids in a government holding pen ( misnamed public “schools”).

If you want your child to grow up to be an adult the best way to do that is to socialize him in the company of adults! Homeschooling is a great way to do that.