Boys Adrift: The Five Factors Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men » (New Edition)

Leonard Sax, M.D., Ph.D., is founder and executive director of the National Association for Single Sex Public Education (NASSPE). His scholarly work has been published in a variety of prestigious journals, including American Psychologist, Educational Horizons, Behavioral Neuroscience, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. He has been a featured guest on CNN, PBS, “The Today Show,” “Fox News,” NPR’s “Talk of the Nation,” and many other national programs. He lives with his wife and daughter in suburban Philadelphia.

Family physician, psychologist, and acclaimed author of Why Gender Matters reveals the truth about what’s driving the decline of American boys—and what we can do about it.

The Riddle     1
The First Factor: Changes at School     15
The Second Factor: Video Games     53
The Third Factor: Medications for ADHD     79
The Fourth Factor: Endocrine Disruptors     99
End Result: Failure to Launch     117
The Fifth Factor: The Revenge of the Forsaken Gods     163
Detox     185
Acknowledgments     219
Notes     223
Index     261