While secular men are in existential crisis, we must be doing something right.Seven ways our system sidesteps the current masculinity crisis
The New York Times, in a recent article titled “It’s Not Just a Feeling,” assures us that this is not just hype. The actual data on the ground shows how dramatically boys and young men are falling behind.
For example, only 41 percent of college degrees now go to men. Atlantic magazine has dubbed this “the new marriage of unequals,” as more-educated women marry less-educated men. Men in the workforce are in decline — in fact, one in ten men aged 20 to 24 is doing neither school nor work. Mental health crises among young men are climbing, as is addiction and suicide — at four times the rate of young women.
And all this is just the backdrop to the most tragic part — the way this crisis is affecting family life. A whopping two-thirds of American children are born to single mothers — even while research shows that the single most important marker for success in life is being raised by two parents. As one commentator put it, women are advancing in every area — while men are becoming really excellent at video games.
Taken together, it’s clear that referring to this as a “crisis of masculinity” is not hyperbole — in fact, it might be an understatement.
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