The Prefrontal Cortex Is Not Fully on Line Till About 24, 25

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In on makes me wonder if that supreme court decision that was made on 20 years ago, that the death penalty cannot be applied to miners because they're not making rational choice decisions. The prefrontal cortex is not really fully on line till about aged 24, 25. And there was a state, and i can't remember which one it was, now, the attempted to have a different drinking age for women and men. Why do we let boys and girls drive at the same ratelt, you know, the number of young men that get killed or kill others driving? But it seems to be that breach is the constituton.

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.