Have We Raised A Generation Of Men That Do Not Know How

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Have We Raised A Generation Of Men That Do Not Know How

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Have We Raised An Entire Generation Of Young Men That Do Not Know How To Be Men?

Have we completely and totally failed an entire generation of young men? Have we failed to equip them with the tools that they need? Have we raised an entire generation of young men that do not know how to be men? Today, young adult men are nearly twice as likely to live with their parents as young adult women are, and young adult men are much less likely to go to college than young adult women are.

Now I want to make something perfectly clear before we proceed. The point of this article is not to slam women or drag them down. Not at all. Rather, the goal of this article is to point out that we have a real problem with our young men and that they are lagging way behind. Vast numbers of them don’t want to go to college, don’t want to pursue careers, don’t want to get married and don’t want to take on any serious responsibilities. Of course there are always exceptions. In fact, there are some young men out there that are absolutely outstanding. However, what this article is trying to say is that the overall trends all point to the fact that our system has raised up a crop of young men that are generally weak, directionless, wimpified and unwilling to take responsibility. This is not a good thing.
What comes to your mind when you think of men under the age of 30 in America today? Does an image of an irresponsible, sex crazed, beer swilling slacker come to mind?
Unfortunately, that stereotype is way too true. We have failed our young men. We did not teach them how to be men. Yes, as I noted earlier, there are definitely exceptions to this, but in general we have a real problem on our hands.
Let take a look at some of the hard numbers.
As a recent CNN article noted, young men between the ages of 25 and 34 are almost twice as likely to live with their parents as young women the same age are….
The number of adult children who live with their parents, especially young males, has soared since the economy started heading south. Among males age 25 to 34, 19% live with their parents today, a 5 percentage point increase from 2005, according to Census data released Thursday. Meanwhile, 10% of women in that age group live at home, up from 8% six years ago.
Among the college-aged set, the 18- to 24-year-olds, 59% of males and 50% of females lived with their parents, up from 53% and 46%, respectively.
So what in the world is causing this?
Men that are between 25 and 34 should be in their prime working years. Instead, almost one out of every five of them is living with mommy and daddy.
This is a major problem. Rather than working hard, taking responsibility and building their own lives, we have way too many young men that are living in our basements and that spend much of their time watching television or playing video games.
The lack of ambition among many of our young men is absolutely appalling. Today, young women are far more likely to pursue a college education than young men are. According to the New York Times, approximately 57 percent of all young people enrolled at U.S. colleges are women. That means that only about 43 percent are men.
As I have written about previously, unemployment is also rampant among our young people.
Only 55.3% of all Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 were employed last year. That was the lowest level that we have seen since World War II.
Today, there are millions of young men that are sitting around with no job, no hope and no direction in life.
But even many of those that do have jobs are not making much money. The number of the “working poor� in America is rapidly increasing, and this is especially true among young adults. Since the year 2000, incomes for U.S. households led by someone between the ages of 25 and 34 have fallen by about 12 percent after you adjust for inflation.
In the past, women always complained about the “gender gap� when it came to wages, but today we are actually seeing that reversed among our young people. In fact, author Guy Garcia says that women in their twenties now earn more money than men of the same age in the ten largest cities in the United States.
This current generation of men also seems to be extremely hesitant to take on the responsibilities of marriage and family. Today, an all-time low 44.2% of Americans between the ages of 25 and 34 are married.
Instead, most young men seem to want to run around “hooking up� with as many women as possible without any consequences.
But there are consequences. The irresponsible behavior of our young men is putting an incredible amount of strain on our young women.
For example, in 2010 42 percent of all single mothers in the United States were on food stamps.
So what is causing all of this?
Well, certainly there are a lot of factors, but it certainly does not help that men are almost always portrayed as weak, irresponsible, sex-crazed idiots on television and in our movies.
This point was made very well in a recent article in The Washington Times….
If the fall TV season is any guide, the sexual revolution that was supposed to liberate men and women from traditional sex roles seems to have resulted instead in a straight-up role reversal. The male characters are messes — insecure, jobless, barely able to dress themselves without a wife or girlfriend and/or living in mom’s proverbial basement. Their female counterparts, meanwhile, are flaunting the same selfish, boorish ways that once got men called “chauvinist pigs.�
Today, our society generally does not teach young men that they should be strong, noble, ambitious and eager to take responsibility.
Instead, we are constantly sending our young men the message that we expect them to act like idiots, drink lots of beer, chase women and pretty much be as lazy as possible.
I fear that we have failed this entire generation of young men. Yes, there are many that have turned out great, but in general we have a real mess on our hands.
So what can we do about all of this?

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Sounds like he's blaming the symptoms rather than the cause. It's difficult to "be a man" when kids these days graduate college and have few employment prospects. Then when they do the right thing all the young women don't want anything to do with them because they're all busy f***ing the bad boys or miniscule percentage of guys with cool occupations like athlete or entertainer. The drinking, lack of motivation, etc.. sounds more like long term depression to me. A general cultural malaise that has fallen over American youth.
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Repatriate wrote:Sounds like he's blaming the symptoms rather than the cause. It's difficult to "be a man" when kids these days graduate college and have few employment prospects. Then when they do the right thing all the young women don't want anything to do with them because they're all busy f***ing the bad boys or miniscule percentage of guys with cool occupations like athlete or entertainer. The drinking, lack of motivation, etc.. sounds more like long term depression to me. A general cultural malaise that has fallen over American youth.
Yes, a cultural malaise has fallen over America's youth, but one that has been primarily directed at American males. Here's some proof:

The New math on campus
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/fashi ... wanted=all

“This is so typical, like all nights, 10 out of 10,� said Kate Andrew, a senior from Albemarle, N.C. The experience has grown tiresome: they slip on tight-fitting tops, hair sculpted, makeup just so, all for the benefit of one another, Ms. Andrew said, “because there are no guys.� North Carolina, with a student body that is nearly 60 percent female, is just one of many large universities that at times feel eerily like women’s colleges.




Fall TV’s mean women, milquetoast men
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... qus_thread

If the fall TV season is any guide, the sexual revolution that was supposed to liberate men and women from traditional sex roles seems to have resulted instead in a straight-up role reversal. The male characters are messes — insecure, jobless, barely able to dress themselves without a wife or girlfriend and/or living in mom’s proverbial basement. Their female counterparts, meanwhile, are flaunting the same selfish, boorish ways that once got men called “chauvinist pigs.�




Our male identity crisis: What will happen to men?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/wir ... happen-men
We are experiencing a male identity crisis in Western Society, brought into sharp focus by the global economic downturn.

First, we are seeing a significant shift in the nature of education and employment trends which will have a huge impact on male identities. Boys are seriously under-achieving in public schools in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia, according to several recent research studies. Men now comprise barely 40% of enrolled University and College students and graduates. In fact, a gender education gap, in which women are far outpacing men in terms of educational achievement, has been quietly growing in America over the past few decades
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Look at this way Mr.S

Would i want to be pot-smoking, video-game playing douschebag who still gets laid with stupid AW skanks going to nightclubs and partying having fun.

Or do i want to be the stable married man with a good job, but get absolutely no respect in my home by my own spouse. As well her having the power of taking my children and house with a simple call to the lawyer.

A lot of men are saying f**k it, whats the point of being responsible if it's not going to be rewarded by the average AW or society. Everyday single day on TV the father/husband is treated like crap so consistently that it's like beating a deadhorse on a ground.
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Number of men aged 25-34 living with their parents rockets..

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Number of men aged 25-34 living with their parents rockets to 18.6 per cent, the highest level since 1960
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 6:55 AM on 8th November 2011

The never-ending recession has lead to more and more young men living with their parents because they simply cannot afford to pay for their own accommodation.
According to the Census Bureau, the share of men aged between 25 and 34 living with their parents jumped to 18.6 per cent this year, up from 14.2 per cent four years ago and the highest level since at least 1960.
Young men have been hit harder in the recession than any other group, with the unemployment rate for males between 25 and 34 years old with high-school diplomas standing at 14.4 per cent.

Post-graduate economics: Those under 35 years of age are making record low household incomes in comparison to those aged 65 or older, helping fill out youth protests across the country including a shown discussion on economic theory at the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York
That figure is up from 6.1 per cent before the economy nose-dived four years ago and far above the national rate of nine per cent.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a typical example is that of Cody Preston, 25, of Portland, Oregon.
He was living comfortably installing granite counters before the housing market collapsed. He lost his job, his marriage broke up and he found himself back living with his parents.
His mother Sue Preston said several of her friends are helping out their grown sons.
She believes the awful economic situation has left many young men like her son disaffected.
She told the WSJ: 'They're working minimum-wage jobs and a lot of times, they don't have benefits, they don't have a full 40 hours a week.
'They have to move back home or they have to have multiple roommates. How are you going to take on a wife and a family in that situation?'

Struggling: New census numbers show the estimated number of Americans living in poverty are at the highest known rate reaching 49.1 million, or 16 percent, touting anger and protests across the country
The Census Bureau figures come as it emerged that the wealth gap between younger and older Americans has stretched to the widest on record.
The typical U.S. household headed by a person age 65 or older has a net worth 47 times greater than a household headed by someone under 35, according to an analysis of census data released Monday.
While people typically accumulate assets as they age, this wealth gap is now more than double what it was in 2005 and nearly five times the 10-to-1 disparity a quarter-century ago, after adjusting for inflation.
The analysis by the Pew Research Center reflects the impact of the economic downturn, which has hit young adults particularly hard.
More are pursuing college or advanced degrees, taking on debt as they wait for the job market to recover.
RECORD HIGH POVERTY
New census estimates show the number of Americans living in poverty is higher than previously known – reaching a new level of 49.1 million, or 16 percent.
The numbers released Monday are a new supplemental poverty measure aimed at providing a fuller picture of poverty of America. They are higher than the official 2010 poverty rate of 15.1 percent, or a record 46.2 million, that was reported in September.
Much of the increase in the new measure comes from rising everyday costs, such as out-of-pocket medical expenses, that aren't factored into the official rate. Americans 65 or older had the biggest poverty jump – 15.9 percent, versus 9 percent under the official formula.
For Hispanics, poverty rose to 28.2 percent, surpassing that of blacks for the first time.
Others are struggling to pay mortgage costs on homes now worth less than when they were bought in the housing boom.
The report, coming out before the Nov. 23 deadline for a special congressional committee to propose $1.2 trillion in budget cuts over 10 years, casts a spotlight on a government safety net that has buoyed older Americans on Social Security and Medicare amid wider cuts to education and other programs, including cash assistance for poor families.

Why did no one stop him? Shocking video goes viral of teenager punching homeless man on subway as dozens of people walk by
Complaints about wealth inequality, high unemployment and student debt also have been front and center at Occupy Wall Street protests around the country.
'It makes us wonder whether the extraordinary amount of resources we spend on retirees and their health care should be at least partially reallocated to those who are hurting worse than them,' said Harry Holzer, a labor economist and public policy professor at Georgetown University who called the magnitude of the wealth gap 'striking.'
The median net worth of households headed by someone 65 or older was $170,494. That is 42 percent more than in 1984, when the Census Bureau first began measuring wealth broken down by age.
The median net worth for the younger-age households was $3,662, down by 68 percent from a quarter-century ago, according to the Pew analysis.
Net worth includes the value of a person's home, possessions and savings accumulated over the years, including stocks, bank accounts, real estate, cars, boats or other property, minus any debt such as mortgages, college loans and credit card bills.


Record poverty: New census estimates show the number of Americans living in poverty is higher than previously known ¿ reaching a new level of 49.1 million, or 16 percent
Older Americans tend to hold more net worth because they are more likely to have paid off their mortgages and built up more savings from salary, stocks and other investments over time.
The median is the midpoint, and thus refers to a typical household.
The 47-to-1 wealth gap between old and young is believed by demographers to be the highest ever, even predating government records.
In all, 37 percent of younger-age households have a net worth of zero or less, nearly double the share in 1984.
But among households headed by a person 65 or older, the percentage in that category has been largely unchanged at 8 percent.
While the wealth gap has been widening gradually due to delayed marriage and increases in single parenting among young adults, the housing bust and recession have made it significantly worse.
For young adults, the main asset is their home.
Their housing wealth dropped 31 percent from 1984, the result of increased debt and falling home values.
In contrast, Americans 65 or older were more likely to have bought homes long before the housing boom and thus saw a 57 percent gain in housing wealth even after the bust.


Increasing numbers: The new census numbers on poverty are higher than the official 2010 poverty rate of 15.1 percent, or 46.2 million, that was reported in September
Older Americans are staying in jobs longer, while young adults now face the highest unemployment since World War II.
As a result, the median income of older-age households since 1967 has grown at four times the rate of those headed by the under-35 age group.
Social Security benefits account for 55 percent of the annual income for older-age households, unchanged since 1984.
The retirement benefits, which are indexed for inflation, have been a consistent source of income even as safety-net benefits for other groups such as low-income students have failed to keep up with rising costs or begun to fray.
The congressional supercommittee that is proposing budget cuts has been reviewing whether to trim college aid programs, such as by restricting eligibility or charging students interest on loans while they are still in school.
Sheldon Danziger, a University of Michigan public policy professor who specializes in poverty, noted skyrocketing college tuition costs, which come as many strapped state governments cut support for public universities.
Federal spending on Pell Grants to low-income students has risen somewhat, but covers a diminishing share of the actual cost of attending college.
'The elderly have a comprehensive safety net that most adults, especially young adults, lack,' Danziger said.

Anomaly for age: At 27-years-old, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a net worth of $17.5 billion but has pledged to give a majority of it to philanthropy
Paul Taylor, director of Pew Social & Demographic Trends and co-author of the analysis, said the report shows that today's young adults are starting out in life in a very tough economic position.
'If this pattern continues, it will call into question one of the most basic tenets of the American Dream — the idea that each generation does better than the one that came before,' he said.
Other findings:
—Households headed by someone under age 35 had their median net worth reduced by 27 percent in 2009 as a result of unsecured liabilities, mostly a combination of credit card debt and student loans.
No other age group had anywhere near that level of unsecured liability acting as a drag on net worth; the next closest was the 35-44 age group, at 10 percent.
—Wealth inequality is increasing within all age groups.
Among the younger-age households, those living in debt have grown the fastest while the share of households with net worth of at least $250,000 edged up slightly to 2 percent.
Among the older-age households, the share of households worth at least $250,000 rose to 20 percent from 8 percent in 1984; those living in debt were largely unchanged at 8 percent.


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