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Index
Praise
Title Page
Dedication
A WORD OF CAUTION
1 - THE RIDDLE
More Than Just School
2 - THE FIRST FACTOR Changes at School
Why Is That a Problem?
Hold Him Back So He’ll Get Ahead
What Are Little Girls Made Of?
The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
How Is a Child Different from a Programmable Computer?
Good News: The Boys’ Crisis Is a Myth!
“How Would You Feel If You Were Piggy?”—And Other Questions Unfriendly to Boys
The Right Kind of Competition
What About Self-Esteem?
What About Columbine—and Virginia Tech?
3 - THE SECOND FACTOR Video Games
The Will to Power
Dumb and Dumber
The Polar Bear Club
4 - THE THIRD FACTOR Medications for ADHD
“Why Not Give It a Try?”
The Nucleus Accumbens
Video Games Actually Do Fry Your Brain
“An Antiquated Relic of the Victorian Era”
5 - THE FOURTH FACTOR Endocrine Disruptors
Fish on the Wild Side
She’s Only Eight Years Old, But She Could Pass for Twelve or Fourteen
Puberty Out of Synch
Bottled Water, Pacifiers, and Baby Bottles
Endocrine Disruptors, ADHD, and Motivation
Why Have Kids Gotten So Fat?
Are Boys Now the More Fragile Sex?
Neither Male nor Female
Private Parts
6 - END RESULT Failure to Launch
What Happened to Money?
John Craft’s Dilemma
The Lesson of the Pribilof Islands
What’s Going On?
The Changing American Household
Whatever Happened to Money and Sex?
The Stick of Duty
Failure to Launch
7 - THE FIFTH FACTOR The Revenge of the Forsaken Gods
Enduring Cultures Have One Thing in Common
American Culture—Toxic to Boys—and to Girls?
The Significance of Gender
The Changing American Father
What Does It Mean to Be a Man?
What About Girls?
8 - DETOX
The First Factor: Changes in Education
The Second Factor: Video Games
The Third Factor: Medications for ADHD
How Often Does a Teenage Boy “Develop” ADHD?
The Fourth Factor: Endocrine Disruptors
The Fifth Factor: The Loss of Positive Role Models
Restore the Bond Between Generations
A Word of Warning
One Story
AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
Acknowledgements
NOTES
INDEX
Copyright Page
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