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The State Of Our Boys

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Actually heard in a fifth-grade math class: "I could be playing Minecraft right now." 

If you guessed the comment came from a boy, you guessed right. 

The American men of the future are often disaffected and disconnected as adolescents, leading some observers to speak in terms of a "boy crisis." 

Dr. Wes Crenshaw, Kansas psychologist, focuses much of his work on teens and younger children. 

He shares his discoveries and treatment approaches to boys in this hour.  
 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.