Is the Birth Rate Going Down?

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Social media is playing a much bigger role for girls, because social media is a way to facilitate interrelational bullying. It's quite a different story for boys, partly because they use social meting quite differently. And the screen time, for example, video gaming or ponography, could be crowding out other forms of relationship a building. I think for boys it's more about loneliness. They do lack relationships and there's good work out on this ier survey centre er er than i jen. But how now, the young men are more likely to ask their parents for advice than their friends, and so on. So i think it sir,. i think it's very interesting

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.