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Today's song is: Where Have all the Flowers Gone  .. Joan Baez

I was, am, an educator and I discovered an emerging trend around the turn of the century. My concern was summarily dismissed at the time but my canary warnings have proven true.

Today's young males are hurting big time for a variety of reasons and rather than go on an on about 'Whole Language Instruction' and the gentrification of the school yard you should read at least one of the following articles.

'Have you taken a stroll on a college campus recently? Where have the men gone? In the latest census, males comprise 51% of the total US population between the ages of 18-24. Yet, just over 40% of today’s college students are men. In fact, in each year since 1982, more American women than men have received bachelor’s degrees Over the last decade two million more women graduated from college than men. And the gap continues to grow. Michael Thompson, author of Raising Cain, a great book on the plight of young males, illustrates the path we are going down with a startling extrapolation. He notes that if today’s trends continue unaltered, the last young man in the US to get a college degree will do so in 2068. Scary stuff.'

Plight of Young Males (Harvard Business Review - https://hbr.org/2011/03/the-plight-of-young-males

'Peterson sees young men as victims of a society that hasn’t prepared them to be men, where postmodern, identity group politics has leaked out of the campuses and into the elementary schools, where being an energetic boy is considered a mental health defect, as social media rumors say.'

'The author, Jordan Peterson, is a clinical psychologist and college professor from Canada. He derives answers from theology, psychiatry and philosophy for questions about life, gender roles, and other hot button topics. His book, 12 Rules of Life: An Antidote to Chaos, is currently No. 6 on Amazon.com and is No.1 in self-help categories.'

Jordan Peterson (Canadian Psychologist, U of T) - https://www.smh.com.au/world/north-america/young-men-search-for-answers-rising-star-jordan-peterson-gives-them-20180223-p4z1cw.html

'Men’s education and employment problems fuel a mismatch in the marriage department, between women’s desires and reality. In a separate Pew survey from 2014, 78 percent of single women said finding a partner with a steady job was “very important,” putting more weight on this factor than any other, including sharing ideas about children (70 percent) or religion (38 percent). Unfortunately a shrinking pool of men meet that criteria.'

Huffington Post - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/hadley-heath/dont-let-political-correc_b_10281196.html?gucc

Peterson has many excellent videos on YouTube. If you are a young male of a mother with a male child you should spend some time with them.  He is not without controversy from the college politically correct snowflakes and embraces that controversy which just pisses them off more! eh!

TTYL