Lost Boys: Crisis in British Masculinity

0:00On April 4th, a new report from the Center for Social Justice is sounding the alarm on thousands of lost boys in Britain, saying they lack positive. Male role models as family units break down and youth services vanish. Only 27% of boys aged 10-15 say they're completely happy now, down from 36% about 15 years back. The think tank blames disappearing youth clubs and fewer male volunteers and sports for leaving these kids without guidance. Most have hit hard with a thousand fewer youth clubs today and youth workers down by over a third to just about 16-undevinning 62. In some spots, only 1 in 100 men over 45 are involved in sports clubs. This ties into bigger issues like family breakdown, one of five pathways to poverty, the group treks worsening problems for working class lads. White working class boys are lacking hardest in schools, hitting the lowest marks in GCSEs and falling behind peers in nearly all of England's 3,400 secondary schools.

1:02Lord Sewell's past report called out the government for leaving them stuck and recent polls show more schoolboy misogyny toward female teachers up to 23.4% this year. The report pushes men to step up as role models backed by over a hundred youth charities noting fatherlessness and smartphone overload over real. It calls for a right to sport with two hours weekly after school activity plus three more hours of extras plus a 100 million pound national youth fund and steady funding for services. This crisis of masculinity has sparked hot talks from TV hits like adolescence to Louis Theroux's Manusphere doc urging everyone from dads to policy makers to rebuild those bonds before more boys slip away.