Is There a Difference Between Black Boys and Black Girls?

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i don't envy you. This is a hard problem. Reminds me of that study by patrick moinhan in the 19 63, maybe early sixties,. about the problem of fatherless homes in the black community. But if girls, black girls, are not as affected as much by this home environment as black boys, there's obviously more factors going on. Well, i think it's almost a magnified version of what's happening more generally with boys and men and girls and women. On the positive side, for girls and women, there's just been thi investment in a and rhetoric around empowerment. And we've seen really incredibly heartening progress on a lot of

Shermer and Reeves discuss: • comparison method: U.S. vs. other WERID countries • education • work/labor market • family • marriage • Divorce/custody/spousal support/child support • intersectionality I: Black boys and men vs. White boys and men • intersectionality II: poor boys and men vs. middle class/upper class boys and men • What is a man? (nature and nurture in the making of a male) • what the political left gets wrong about boys and men • what the political right gets wrong about boys and men • solutions: red shirt boys early; men in STEM and HEAL • fatherhood as an independent institution

Richard V. Reeves is a senior fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution, where he directs the Boys and Men Project and holds the John C. and Nancy D. Whitehead Chair. He is the author of Dream Hoarders: How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It(2017) and a regular contributor to the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic.