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Perspective: Progressives are starting to come around on the importance of marriage and fatherhood

March 20, 2025
Perspective: Progressives are starting to come around on the importance of marriage and fatherhood

In his landmark 2022 book “Of Boys and Men,” Richard Reeves chronicled the falling fortunes of America’s young men. He found that men aren’t attending college at the same rate as women — higher ed is now about 60% female. In elementary and high school, boys make up two-thirds of the worst-performing students. And we know that 1 in 4 men without college degrees are not employed full-time.

Most importantly, men are between two and three times as likely as women to suffer “deaths of despair” — death by alcohol, drug use or suicide. Hundreds of thousands of men have died from deaths of despair in the past two decades.

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