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Boys

U.S. adults differ in how much they say certain things should be emphasized for boys and girls

By Filings on Mon, 03/17/25
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“By margins of at least 10 percentage points, Americans are less likely now than they were in 2017 to say there’s too little emphasis on encouraging girls to … Do well in school (27% now vs. 43% in 2017) … Be leaders (38% vs. 53%)… Stand up for themselves (41% vs. 54%)” - Pew

Young men and the search for genuine masculinity

By Filings on Tue, 09/12/23
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“In God’s economy, men are neither disposable accessories nor bronze-age perverts. Instead, it calls me up from foolishness into a rich life of hard work, faithfulness, and self-sacrifice.” - Dan Darling

Are All-boys Schools the Answer to the Boy Crisis?

By Filings on Mon, 08/21/23
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“Girls now get better grades than boys do, in every subject, in every grade K-12. Women at university in the United States now outnumber men by roughly 60/40….The all-boys format creates the opportunity to do things differently” - IFS

Christian alternative to Boy Scouts gets 1,000th Troop: 'Campaign to rescue America’s boys’

By Filings on Fri, 05/05/23
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“ ‘Every new Troop means boys are being impacted by our Christ-centered, boy-focused approach to building Godly men,’ said Hancock.” - CPost

Gaming Alone: Helping the Generation of Young Men Captivated and Isolated by Video Games

By Filings on Wed, 12/14/22
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“The statistics are genuinely alarming: it sounds like boys are all going to drop out of school, quit going to work, and spend the rest of their lives watching porn, doing drugs, and playing video games.” - TGC

Children's Society: “In the UK, boys aged 15 reported a markedly lower level of well-being from girls of the same age”

By Filings on Fri, 08/28/20
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“In its annual Good Childhood Report, released today, the Church of England charity says that 15-year-olds in the UK scored lower levels of life satisfaction than those in 24 other European countries.” - Church Times

"...our culture often treats vices in men as the result of their masculinity, while viewing their virtues as the result of their humanity."

By Filings on Mon, 12/09/19
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“The challenge of raising a boy, then, should not lie in suppressing their masculine characteristics, but rather in shaping them and channeling them toward virtuous ends.” - David French

Ignorance of the nature of boys is real and widespread

By Filings on Wed, 09/18/19
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“Feminists are the cause of the predicament boys and men face by successfully selling the false narrative that men are, and always have been, women’s greatest enemies.” - Suzanne Venker

Is there a crisis of father absence in the U.S.? Ninety-three percent of moms think so.

By Filings on Wed, 04/18/18
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“Today’s boys are in very bad shape. That’s the key takeaway from The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It.” National Review

"Our schools today are becoming hostile environments for little boys"

By SharperIron on Mon, 08/26/13
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“As our classrooms become more risk averse, competition-free, feeling-centered, sedentary, they’re moving away from the needs of boys.”

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