Boys Adrift, Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
Boys Adrift, Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.
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Boys Adrift
The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men

Author: Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D.

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/09/2008

Categories: Nonfiction


Synopsis

Fully onethird of men ages 2234 are still living at home with their parentsabout a 100 percent increase in the past twenty years. Boys nationwide are increasingly dropping out of school; fewer are going to college. Family physician and research psychologist Dr. Leonard Sax argues that a combination of social, cultural, and biological factors is creating an environment that is literally toxic to boys, ranging from environmental estrogens to the overprescription of ADHD drugs. And he presents practical solutionsfrom new ways of controlling boys' use of video games, to innovative education reforms.

Reviews

Most of the attention Dr. Leonard Sax gets is for his advocacy of single sex education for boys. In his first book, Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences, Sax described the developmental and biological differences between the sexes a......more

Goodreads review by Leslie

For the first couple of chapters I was planning on giving this book one lonely star. I kept reading, it got a bit better and I ended up giving it two stars. Two stars still isn't a great recommendation but ultimately I decided it was worth reading. The middle section contained some information I'm a......more