obesity, and game addiction. And these young fatherless boys


are not going to find male models in the classroom either, where most teachers are female. Most single young white males now


report that they want to remain single and put their needs first. These needs do not include for most of them a wife and children. Much of this choice is lifestyle, but


America’s Boy Crisis Mass shootings spotlight


a lost generation of white youths.


A BY DONALD T. CRITCHLOW


merica has experienced 26 mass shootings in the last 10 years. They were committed by deeply trou-


bled youths, aged 12 to 25. All were male, and more than half


were white. They all gave warning signs that


were ignored by authority figures in their lives. Six of these shooters, based on


available information, lived in father- less homes. While problems of African Ameri-


can and Hispanic youth garner wide attention, what is evident is that white youth are experiencing similar prob- lems in escalating rates of school drop- outs, drug usage, suicide, and jobless- ness.


Following the May 24 mass shoot-


ing of school children at Robb Ele- mentary School in Uvalde, Texas, by a deranged 18-year-old youth, Con- gress — Democrats and Republicans — undertook gun control legislation, banning certain weapons, enacting stronger background checks, and imposing higher legal ages to purchase semi-automatic weapons.


it also reflects economic choices. Real wage earnings for males with a high school or lower education have steeply declined in the last decade. The only rise in real earnings growth has been for males with four or more years of college.


These measures fail to address the


larger cultural problem: “the boy cri- sis.”


This “boy crisis” is found across developed Western countries, but it is especially severe in the United States. We are experiencing a lost generation of our youth — Generation Z, those born between the years 1997-2012. This generation can be character-


ized without understatement as semi- illiterate, addicted to social media, and secular. A survey conducted in 2019 by USA


Today showed that 71% of them list LGBTQA rights as their greatest con- cern.


Other top issues were gender equal-


ity, immigration rights, income equal- ity, racial justice, Black Lives Matter, and reproductive rights. Only 16% said that they would turn


to someone from a religious commu- nity in facing a personal challenge. A third of young boys today grow


up without fathers. For decades, sociologists and other


family experts have warned about the social consequences of fatherless households. Of course, single mothers can do a wonderful job of raising their children. In fact, most do. It’s the ones that don’t that cause problems. Dad deprivation is a good predictor of going to jail, drug overdose, suicide,


AN ILLITERATE GENERATION Surveys show that only 2% of Ameri- can teens read a newspaper and only a third have read a book for pleasure in any given year. Instead, they spend their leisure time surfing the web, gaming, and watching videos. Less time is spent by youth today


than a decade ago on socializing, attending parties, sporting, or enter- tainment events. Drugs, legal and illegal, are destroy-


ing young men. In 2021 alone, 107,000 opioid deaths have occurred. Most of these deaths (69%) occurred among males. Our political, cultural, and edu-


cational elites have bought into this destructive narrative. Parents are reacting by saying “enough is enough.” Step by step they are taking back


their schools. The next step is for grassroots America to take back our culture. It begins when average Americans


demand that social media and main- stream media stop promoting destruc- tive social narratives in which men are seen as the enemy.


Donald T. Critchlow, Katzin Family Foundation professor at Arizona State University, is the author of Revolutionary Minds: Five Monsters Who Turned Liberation Into Tyranny.


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