What are the issues that primarily/disproportionately affect boys in developed and developing countries?

shit-zen-giggles · 2019-11-23T14:54:22+00:00

Here's a non-exhaustive list:

Discrimination in education (boys get worse grades for the same achivement as proven by numerous studies with a variety of methods)
Fatherlessness affects boys much more serverly than girls (who are still significantly affected). From higher risk of educational underachivement to addiction and psychological problems right down to criminal delinquency.
The overfeminization of psychology in personal, treatment modalities and theory leaves boys who struggle with the above issues out in the cold.
The general misandry that is rampant in media and politics informs them that they aren't part of society, that they and their problems don't matter.

For developing countries I'd add:

Forced labor (often under highly unhealthy conditions)
Forced military service (child soldiers)
Sexual abuse (Becha Bazi in Afghanistan for example)

There surely is more...

mtcapri · 2019-11-23T19:26:39+00:00

A recent blog post posted on /r/mensrights cited a study by the UN on "deprivation of liberty" among children worldwide. The study defines this as follows (page 6, item 18):

In preparing the study, the Independent Expert decided to follow the broad definition of deprivation of liberty and places of detention as set out in article 11 (b)of the Havana Rules of 1990 and article 4 of the Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 2002. Hence, the term “places of detention” covers all places where children may be deprived of liberty, such as prisons, police lock-ups, pretrial detention centres, military camps, social care facilities, institutions for persons with disabilities or for persons addicted to drugs or alcohol, “orphanages”, children’s homes, institutions for the educational supervision of children, psychiatric hospitals, mental health centres or migration detention centres. The study does not, however, cover deprivation of liberty within the family and by private criminal actors, such as trafficking or sale of children.

It found that an astounding 94% of children affected this way are male (page 9, item 35):

The data collected for the study indicate significant gender disparities in the situation of children deprived of liberty. Altogether, there are far more boys deprived of liberty worldwide than girls. In the administration of justice and in the contexts of armed conflicts and national security, 94 per cent of all detained children are boys; in migration detention the figure is 67 per cent and in institutions it is 56 per cent. The number of boys and girls who live with their primary caregiver (almost exclusively mothers) in prison is similar.

excess_inquisitivity · 2019-11-24T00:10:34+00:00

Boko Haram "bring back our girls" has been killing schoolboys in huge numbers for quite some time now

Rafai, who had given an earlier estimate of 29 killed, said all those killed were boys. - note that the fact that they're boys is hidden in the headline as "pupils"

Mamudo learned that dozens of boys slaughtered in Buni Yagi, a remote town in Yobe. He rushed to the hospital near Buni Yagi and saw about 50 bodies, some of whom had been "slaughtered like rams," he said.

Again, buried under the headline which calls them "students".

Source for the above links https://www.mic.com/articles/89695/bringbackourgirls-misses-the-real-story-about-what-s-happening-to-nigeria-s-boys

When people refuse to acknowledge male victims, it's easier to channel resources exclusively to " for girls and women" victims.

romulusnr · 2019-11-24T02:04:29+00:00

Well let's just take one of my "favorite" examples. We heard a few years back about Boko Haram and how they had captured and enslaved thousands of young girls from villages and we needed to stop them.

What nobody ever mentioned was that the *boys* in those villages weren't enslaved -- they were *killed* outright. (Or drugged and turned into psycho killers as is very common.)

(But that's not as bad as what happened to the girls, I guess...)

Blauwpetje · 2019-11-25T10:54:14+00:00

Sex education programmes are more and more about 'treating girls with respect'. There is nothing wrong with that as such, but at an age where boys start discovering their feelings for female bodies and are told that is 'objectifying', it is disastrous. Also, parties for teenagers used to be meant to dance with girls, then dance close, then kiss etc. It seems like it doesn't happen that way anymore. Also because boys have the feeling this is 'respectless'? The irony is that this harms the most sexist boys the least, because they don't care about those ideas, while boys who want to be 'good' don't have a clue anymore what to do to get intimate with a girl.

ur_waifus_prolapse · 2019-11-24T01:19:29+00:00

Basically death. Most homicides, suicides, and deadly accidents involve men as victims. If they involved any other politically trendy group instead, you would have riots, however men are de facto and de jure subhumans, so it doesn't matter.

Tagesausbruch · 2019-11-24T17:47:46+00:00

Genital mutilation

Title	What are the issues that primarily/disproportionately affect boys in developed and developing countries?
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