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60.20 The Boy Crisis
Boys are struggling in education, more likely to take their own lives, less likely to get into stable work, and far more likely to be caught up in crime�
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We must stop seeing masculinity as a problem to be solved and start seeing it as a strength to be nurtured� Strength, resilience, responsibility - these are not traits to be suppressed but harnessed for good�
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From the day they start primary school, to the day they leave higher education, the progress of boys lags behind girls� The proportion of young men compared to young women failing to move from education into employment or training has been steadily growing for thirty years�
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Young men are now out-earned by their female peers, including among the university educated�
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ternational study revealed that fully 60 per cent of men across 31 countries think women’s equality actively discriminates against them
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Centre for Social Justice has found that more than four in ten agree that society does not value traditional masculine values, such as courage, resilience and competitiveness� At the same time, half of 18-24 men say that men are too often shown by the media as “a bit pathetic”�
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Youn men aged 16-24 are also much more likely to be unemployed than young women� CSJ analysis of government data estimates that the government could save £16 billion over five years in tax contributions 7and welfare savings by tackling this problem�
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Male-dominated industries such as manufacturing, agriculture and construction, which used to contribute 8 9 over 40 per cent of UK output in 1970,now amount to just 16 per cent of UK GDP in 2023�In 1997 10manufacturing employed 3�2 million men and this figure has shrunk by over 40 per cent to 1�9 million� While overall unemployment rates remain low, the secure, well-paid and meaningful jobs that used to be available to non-university educated young men are increasingly unavailable�
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significant impact on both partners’ mental health and marriageability
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5 per cent of girls are school ready compared to just 60 per cent of boys
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British universities female students outnumber males by three to two
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polling suggests that 41per cent of sixth-form boys and girls have been taught in school lessons that boys are a problem for society�
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Britain is suffering from an epidemic of fatherlessness� 2�5 million children in the UK have no father figure 18 Almost half of first-born children by age 14at home, representing one in five of all dependent children� 19 For those born in 1970, this figure was just 21 per centdo not live with both natural parents�
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21Previous estimates have placed the cost to the state per year of family breakdown at £51bn� Accounting for inflation this would now be at least £64bn�
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76 23 With the annual cost of a prisoner beingper cent of children in custody said they had an absent father� 24, father engagement is imperative for cost saving, reducing the prison population, and life-£50,000 saving measures�
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boys are more likely now to own a smartphone than to live with their dad�
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29 British boys are less healthy than at any time in living memory� One in four boys in Year 6 is obese�This is contributing to the £6�5 billion a year spent on treating obesity-related ill health, something which affects one in four of all those in the UK�
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Every case of suicide is a tragedy and for young people between the ages of 15 and 19, for every girl that took their own life, almost three and a half boys did likewise�
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orrying increase in asphyxiation, particularly within sexual encounters�
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37 increase by 257 per cent from the previous year,sextortion’
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f young men likely watching porn every or most days and 88 per cent of pornographic scenes containing physical violence�
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“I have two teenage boys aged 18 and 19. I talk to them a lot about how they feel society views them. They feel that they are viewed as predators, lazy and toxic, but are told frequently that they are privileged.”
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While employment drives for women to enter such typically male-dominated industries are important, men have unequivocally borne the brunt of industrial decline� Dieindustrialisation has impacted families, communities and regions differently, but the foremost effect has been on male employment�
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Periods of unemployment during youth can cause long-term economic and personal harm� Research reveals that every additional week of unemployment reduces the likelihood of attaining leadership roles in the future by 2 per cent - a phenomenon often referred to as “early-career unemployment scarring”
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Prolonged unemployment, aside from creating enduring damage to economic mobility and career development, also has a major impact on mental health and relative wellbeing� There is a swathe of well-documented evidence that suggests that being out of work correlated strongly with worse mental 53 Alongside this, men in relationships have disproportionately reduced life satisfaction whenhealth they are unemployed, irrespective of their partners employment status� This is a phenomenon that studies suggest is not the same for women who, “experience a large drop in happiness if the partner becomes unemployed (controlling for income), a drop that by far exceeds the one associated with own 54 So, men’s unemployment seems to more adversely affect relationships than women’sunemployment�” unemployment does� The consequences of such findings, which are reflected internationally, represent a challenge for gender dynamics and relationship formation for younger people�
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