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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not the colleges. Something is very wrong with the young, mostly white, male population in this country. They just aren't motivated. I don't know what happened. [/quote]

But at the top levels, men are doing just fine. There are lots of smart, healthy, motivated, kind, and well-adjusted men at Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Stanford, Duke, Michigan, Rice, Chicago, MIT, Texas, and Georgia Tech. Some might be a little on the nerdier side, but most men at these schools are doing very well and are a benefit to any community. And I think all those schools are close to 50-50, though Georgia Tech will skew a little more male.

There does seem to be a missing middle though among young men today. But more video games is definitely not the answer. Nor is dropping academic standards to get them to go to certain colleges. We need to deal with education and socialization issues at the elementary and middle school levels. The college level is too late to address these issues.  [/quote]

I have three brothers. One graduated from one of the schools you mentioned and is now unemployed living at home, playing video games. One dropped out of college, learned a trade and makes a ton of money but wastes his spare time on video games. And one graduated from a state school and is an expat in China living it up with many girlfriends. So none of the three are husband material.
I am trying to make my boys better than that but on DCUM if you limit gaming you're making your kid an outcast. What's the solution?[/quote]

How is the 2nd one not husband material? And the 1st one would be if he got a job.[/quote]

Because all three prefer to live as adolescents. They don't want to buy a house or father children. In their 30s.[/quote]

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