Title: Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
Author: Leonard Sax
Genre: Nonfiction - parenting/popular science
Pages: 288
Rating (out of 5 stars): ****
Reviewed by: Ben
Description: Leonard Sax, a Ph.D., M.D., and practicing psychologist, lays out his view that there is an epidemic of boys and young men being unmotivated. He attributes the downward trend to five factors: video games, teaching methods, prescription drugs, environmental toxins, and devaluation of masculinity. He lays out each issue, and also provides practical solutions to help overcome some of these problems.
Thoughts: As the father of 4 boys, I figured this would be worthwhile to read. It definitely was. What I really liked about this book is that it didn't feel like it had an agenda to push. These are simply the things that the author feels are going wrong for boys today, and his ideas to fix them. I wish I was able to better evaluate for myself some of his claims, but all of them seem reasonable and really not overly extreme or out of line. There are definitely things I'll take away that will make me a better parent and youth leader from this book.
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