YOUNG ADULTS LIVING AT HOME

Since 2007, the number of young men living at home increased significantly—from 14.2 percent to 18.6 percent, according to the Population Reference Bureau. However, young women still living with parents remained steady at 10 percent. This is the highest level of young men living at home since the Census Bureau began tracking this measure in 1960.

SHE’S PASSING THE GUYS

There are more female drivers on the road than men for the first time since the automobile was invented, according to a study by Edmunds, an auto information service. The University of Michigan

Transportation Research Institute found this after a study of driver’s license statistics. The assumption is this will affect everything from highway fatalities to car design, as more women than men tend to buy smaller, safer, fuel-efficient cars. These statistics are consistent for age groups from 25 to 55 and rise even more for women over 70, a Frost & Sullivan marketing report indicates.

Conclusion

While women seem to have surpassed men in educational pursuit, communication skills, social skills, and emotional recognition, it would be inaccurate to say a man’s worth in society is endangered.

There are still plenty—plenty—of men who financially support their family, raise their children properly, and treat their wives like royalty.

Unfortunately, it seems these men are largely ignored by society.

“I teach at a university and we did a study one time on how commercials during prime time television portray men,” Dr. Saunders says. “One of them had a man tied to the porch with a leash and collar on him. A car goes by and he starts running toward it before getting snapped back. His wife laughs at him. Whenever a commercial or sitcom depicts a father, he’s always inept, like a Homer Simpson or Al Bundy. Those kinds of stereotypical negative images about what fatherhood is, in and of itself, to me, are part of the decline of men in America and how the culture views men.”