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[quote=Anonymous]"I also think I'm outdated but I read this stuff about boys falling by the wayside but I want that to stop happening solely because I want my DD to marry an equal. I don't want my dds' selection of men to be limited because they aren't her equals. It is a problem. Or will become an even bigger problem in the next decade or so"
+1 to this!

I'm the mom of an only-child boy. Trust me that all of us feminist moms need to help push for supports for these rudderless boys so they can be worthy of this generation's daughters. I see him and his friends and can't help but be struck by how stunted they are in so many ways compared to girls their age. It didn't used to matter quite so much that female teens mature faster than boy teens. But now, with the need to declare your major before you even apply to college, and the need to have mastered certain math and science courses to even be able to get admitted to a STEM major while you're still in high school, it's a mess. We've moved forward all of these critical action points for kids, and it's way earlier than when the teen boy brain should be expected to be able to handle it. These days, if they miss that moment it's really hard to ever get on track. And can we do something about the fact that way too many boy teens are being told to go into STEM fields? There are so few opportunities for STEM kids to develop bigger picture thinking, much less critical thinking skills or valuing creativity and beauty. So, when we concentrate boys into these fields, we're making a pre-existing problem even worse. [/quote]

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