Boys

NY Times: ‘It’s Become Increasingly Hard for Them to Feel Good About Themselves’ By Thomas B. Edsall - Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C. on politics, demographics and inequality.

"Across all family structures, we observe that boys’ likelihood to act out is sharply reduced when faced with larger and better parental inputs. For girls, the relationship between parental inputs and behavioral outcomes appear to be much weaker. As these parental inputs are typically higher and of better quality in intact families, this largely contributes to why boys with single mothers are so much more disruptive and eventually face school suspension."