
The Boy Crisis
Andrew Yang Podcast
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Do You Have a Dream?
Boys are more than twice as likely to die from opiate overdoses as girls are. The people who are most likely to commit suicide, both boys and girls, are boys and girls without dads. When boys and girls go out and they are told they're great at something, but they don't have the discipline to fulfil it, after a while, the failure that is associated with each new dream becomes so great that ther afraid to dream. And then they often turn to drugs, or to drinking, or, in boys cases in particular, to suicide.
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