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    <body><![CDATA[Many sections of this book were quite interesting.  I categorically disagree with Sax's condemnation of video game playing, especially violent ones.  I say that as someone who has never been much of a gamer.<br/><br/>I think the problems with video games are closely linked to the problems with gen...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78108064">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent book! Dr. Sax makes a well-documented case for his 5-pronged theory of why modern American boys seem so unmotivated. I found some of his reasons surprising, but after reading his reasoning, they make sense. I was a little skeptical of the phthalates connection, but after doing a little out...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74505432">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[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...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67017974">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I started reading this book after hearing about it from a mom of a teenage boy. Her son is a good kid: good student, practices his faith, athletic, mannerly, but she saw warning signs of how easily good kids can go astray when they don’t have someone to help guide them. If she was concerned about ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54125435">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Really intriguing book, with data to support author's ideas about underachieving boys.  While I am not entirely convinced all the way on all his points, there certainly is a lot of common sense in his ideas as well as ideas to consider.  He is, in general, a fan of single-sex education (see his prev...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8409074">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Boys Adrift: Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men]]>
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    <![CDATA[Family physician, research psychologist, and acclaimed author of <em>Why Gender Matters</em>, Leonard Sax reveals the truth about what's driving the decline of American boys--and what parents can do about it. <p> Something scary is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, they are less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. As for young men, it turns out the film <em>Failure to Launch</em> is not far from the truth. Fully one-third of men ages 22-34 are still living at home with their parents--about a 100 percent increase in the past twenty years. Boys nationwide are increasingly dropping out of school; fewer are going to college; and for the first time in American history, women are outnumbering men at undergraduate institutions three to two. <p> Parents, teachers, and mental health professionals are worried about boys. But until now, no one has come up with good reasons for their decline--and, more important, with workable solutions to reverse this troubling trend. Now, family physician and research psychologist Dr. Leonard Sax delves into the scientific literature and draws on his vast clinical experience to propose an entirely original view of why boys and young men are failing in school and at home. He 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 over-prescription of ADHD drugs. And he presents practical solutions--from new ways of controlling boys' use of video games, to innovative (and workable) education reforms.</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good book for educators, parents, and anyone who is suffering the woes of living with a &quot;man-child,&quot; the guy who coasts by life perfectly content to remain dependent on his wife, girlfriend, or mommy. The content is timely and interesting.  Sax presents his theories about why the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/74938849">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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