Boys Adrift by Sax, Leonard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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

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