read: Boys Adrift

Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax is surely one of my current favorite reads. It's thoughtful, well researched and hard to put down. This is a good book for anyone concerned with current social trends or anyone concerned with our future as a society and indeed our children's future realities. This book raises many concerns for the well-being of our children and future society, but also offers solutions.

The book is broken down into the author's five current concerns for boys: 1. Changes at School 2.Video Games 3. Medications for ADHD 4. Endocrine Disruptors (the result is between concern #4 and #5) 5. Revenge of the Forsaken Gods (or lack of positive male role models in popular culture and our society in general). I think this book deconstructs our current social anemia and articulates causes for our boys (and boys beyond US borders) lack of motivation from a medical, environmental and societal view point. Sax is a physician and psychologist he practiced family medicine for 19 years and has written other books: Girls on the Edge and Why Gender Matters. I hope you will have an opportunity to read this book. It's worth every minute you invest in it. Promise.