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Strengthening marriage and family life through empirical research, public policy, and public education
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In this second installment of our two-part series on demoralized men,
we look at the social lives of young men, including social integration and support, friendship and participation in organized groups, and family relations, especially with parents.

Next, we consider feelings of alienation and frustration, perspectives on the American Dream and their future, and reports of mental health problems and potentially traumatic experiences.

Lastly, we survey online activities, such as pornography, gaming, and gambling, and some of the trouble correlated with these.

We tell a sobering tale about the predicament a significant number of young men find themselves in. As part I notes, some young men are doing quite well, but others are struggling mightily for reasons laid out in part II.
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Daniel Cox at AEI’s Survey Center on American Life has an interesting research finding that two-thirds of young Democratic women believe that the problems facing women today are largely caused by men, observes @aaron_renn

The manosphere is widely critiqued for blaming men’s problems on women. Undoubtedly there are things to critique here. But there’s very little pushback against the likewise broad or even broader phenomenon of women blaming their problems on men.
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The rise of idol culture can be seen in the frequency of idol-related Japanese words in Japanese magazines and periodicals, reports @PeterRFB

Japanese celebrities were routinely expected to appear emotionally available and minimize discussion of their personal romantic and family life.

The pernicious result of this norm is that the populace at large is simultaneously encouraged to develop parasocial relationships with celebrities and deprived of role modeling of romantic and family life by those with whom they have such parasocial relationships.