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Angry Young Men: How Parents, Teachers, and Counselors can Help "Bad Boys" become Good Men
by Aaron Kipnis
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Aaron Kipnis, Ph.D.
Aaron at age 13 | |
SOME
TROUBLING FACTS ABOUT BOYS
- When both
girls and boys are equally misbehaving at schoolboys receive more frequent
and severe penalties. Boys, particularly low-achievers, receive 8 to 10
times the reprimands of their female classmates. These reproaches are more
likely to occur in front of classmates, whereas girls are more frequently
taken aside in private.
- Boys are removed
from classrooms and serve more detention than girls. They comprise 71% of
all school suspensions and are expelled at even higher rates. Boys drop
out of school 4-to-1 over girls, receive more "F’s," have lower
grade point averages, more grade repetitions and failures to graduate.
- The majority
of school violence victims are males who also represent about 3/4ths of
all assaults, homicides and suicides.
- Boys are referred
to special education 4-to-1 over girls. They represent over 70% of students
labeled as learning disabled and 80% of those sent to programs for the emotionally
disturbed.
- Girls outperform
boys in reading and writing by much greater degrees than boys ever
outperformed girls in math or science.
- Boys are the
minority of valedictorians, academic scholarship winners, and are in fewer
clubs, student governments and school newspapers than girls.
- Males now
number only 44% of college admissions and 41% of graduate students. Almost
two thirds of high school girls go on to collage, only slightly more than
half of high school boys do. Those without collage degrees are killed on
the job 20-to-1 over women.
- In "combat
sports" over 300,000 high school boys are injured, 14,000 are hospitalized,
and several are killed each year. About 500,000 adolescent boys risk their
mental and physical health by taking steroids to pump up to a "masculine"
ideal of performance beyond the natural limits of their bodies.
- Boys annually
receive about three million applications of corporal punishment at schools
and about three million boys are being prescribed drugs like Ritalin and
Prozac to control their school behavior.
- Males are
the majority of the homeless; HIV positives; physically abused, neglected
and murdered children; foster kids awaiting adoption; alcoholics and drug
addicts in need of treatment.
- The United
States today has more boys and young men locked up in juvenile institutions,
jails, prisons, and mental hospitals than any other nation on earth.
Excerpted
From:
Angry Young Men: How Parents, Teachers and Counselors Can Help "Bad
Boys" become Good Men.
All the above statistics are documented, with citations, in the book.
© 1999 Aaron
Kipnis, Ph.D. All rights reserved.
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