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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have noticed that some of my smartest male friends from high school never really launched.  They're all under-achieving, given their IQ's and education - they don't really have careers and they haven't married or had kids.  They just seem kind of stalled in general.  I haven't really seen the same thing in my female peer group.  Is it just that we expect men to be ambitious go-getters, more so than women?  I wonder if it's just a general lack of career ambition and maybe some of the women who are not ambitious in the career sense got married and became SAHM's instead.[/quote]

One thought that has crossed my mind is whether or not these boys/men were coddled by their mothers.  From reading many DCUM threads, moms of boys seem to moon over them in a way that moms of girls do not. Girls are expected to do well in school, become successful and independent.  Yes, boys are expected to do that too, but I feel like there isn't as much pressure to get ahead because it's much easier for boys/men to get ahead anyway.[/quote]

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