As a society we appear to be really dropping the ball, because the numbers indicate that American boys are deeply struggling in just about every area. 

Many professionals are pointing to a "crisis of fatherhood" as one of the key factors, and as I pointed out the other day, approximately a third of all U.S. children are now being raised in a home without a father.  Of course this negatively affects our girls as well, but there is something about that lack of a masculine role model that seems to particularly hurt boys.  However, the lack of a traditional family structure cannot explain all of the numbers that I am about to share with you.  As you will see, we are facing a crisis that will not easily be solved.

Warren Farrell, the co-author of a new book entitled "The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It", has identified three key areas that he is most concerned about.

The first is education…

It is a crisis of education. Worldwide, 60% of the students who achieve less than the baseline level of proficiency in any of the three core subjects of the Program for the International Assessment are boys. Even boys' IQs are dropping.

Today, girls are educationally outperforming boys in elementary school, middle school and high school.