Research + Resources

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• Redshirting boys in kindergarten: Pros and Cons
• 40% of kids now grow up in single-parent homes
• Half of young men have never asked out a girl
• 12 years old: Average age of first exposure to porn
• Psychosis linked to cannabis use in young men
• Male college enrollment plummeted during Covid
• Male wages stalled out long ago
• Rising male suicide risk
• 28% of men have never married by 40, a record high
• Gen Z men are now more religious than women

• Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It (Reeves)
• It's a Boy! Your Son's Development from Birth to Age 18  (Thompson, Barker)
• The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It  (Farrell, Gray)
• Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys (Kindlon, Thompson)
• Speaking of Boys: Answers to the Most-Asked Questions About Raising Sons  (Thompson, Barker)
• Boys Adrift (Sax)
• The War Against Boys: How Misguided Policies are Harming Our Young Men  (Sommers)
• The Anti-Social Century (Thompson, The Atlantic)
• What's the Matter with Men?  (Kahloon, The New Yorker)

The book Of Boys and Men was a seminal work in this field, and a resource I quote frequently. Richard Reeves brilliantly synthesized decades of important research—often uncovering buried and obscured data—to highlight the critical challenges facing America's boys and men. Reeves subsequently founded AIBM, a first-of-its-kind think tank dedicated to addressing the structural and societal obstacles they face. You can read his Substack here.