Anonymous wrote:OP, it is a MIRACLE that you don't get killed each and every time you get into your motor vehicle.

Your use of Hyperbole is strange-all the back-up data you spew seems to me that you are not using hyperbole, but that you actually have an untreated anxiety disorter. Paxil.

Not OP. But since you brought it up, insurance companies charge way more for teenage boy drivers than for teenage girl drivers. If people with money on the line think boys take more risks, this seems to support OP's point about risk-taking.

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This part is just chromosomal. If there is a problematic error on the Y chromosome, the mother's DNA is less likely to be able to compensate for it than if the father had contributed a second X chromosome.

Interesting. So have male fetuses always been at greater risk or is this something that has increased over time?

The lack of a second x chromosome has always been true. (I actually know a man who has an extra x, so he's xxy instead of xy. However, that condition has left him sterile.)

Males of all species are likelier to be genetic outliers. If a given mutation makes a male more successful & attractive, it's easier for him to spread his genes far & wide. Whereas a more successful female is more limited by the effort of gestation, and won't have such a plethora of kids.

Anonymous wrote:OP, it is a MIRACLE that you don't get killed each and every time you get into your motor vehicle.

Your use of Hyperbole is strange-all the back-up data you spew seems to me that you are not using hyperbole, but that you actually have an untreated anxiety disorter. Paxil.

You make a very strange comparison. The stats for automobile accidents are very different. This is dicussing male health and mortality, chromosomes, etc and why men at more at risk/vulnerable than women. You may want to step away from the thread if you have never read anything about this or if it upsets you so much to read threads like this or you may want to do a seartch on medline, learn something and think about this topic. It's an interesting topic to some of us.

This kind of reminds me of when my MIL was wondering what the big deal is about autism. She said "the chance of getting it are 1 in a million." The chance is about 1 in 50 for boys and that is based on a sample from a few years ago. These issues are worth discussing. Either read articles from reputable magazines and peer review journal so you can contribute to this dicussion or step away from the thread and pick up OK or US Weekly magazine. Oh and you should probably not visit the political forum if it upsets you so much to read about people concerned about issues affecting us and our children. Yep, don't visit health and medicine either. There is nothing wrong with being concerned and asking WHY?

Carry on...