{"id":2486,"date":"2007-08-01T19:08:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/01\/time-magazine-gets-it-wrong-boys-are-still-in-crisis-and-securing-an-immoral-marketplace\/"},"modified":"2007-08-01T19:08:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:08:47","slug":"time-magazine-gets-it-wrong-boys-are-still-in-crisis-and-securing-an-immoral-marketplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/time-magazine-gets-it-wrong-boys-are-still-in-crisis-and-securing-an-immoral-marketplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Magazine Gets It Wrong: Boys Are Still In Crisis And Securing An Immoral Marketplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acton.org\/blog\/index.html?\/archives\/1831-Time-Magazine-Gets-It-Wrong-Boys-Are-Still-In-Crisis-And-Securing-An-Immoral-Marketplace.html&#038;wherefrom=email\">Acton Power Blog<\/a> | August 1, 2007 <\/p>\n<p>The boy crisis is not a myth. David Von Drehle\u2019s article, \u201cThe Myth About Boys,\u201d in this week\u2019s Time Magazine argues that the boy crisis of the 1990s has leveled off and is now improving. Not exactly. This assessment, however, is completely dependent on one\u2019s moral framework. Boys are still in crisis, regardless of what feminists and other women, like some published in the Washington Post, are saying. It\u2019s a crisis of morality. The ongoing crisis will have dire consequences because the market produces whatever men want, good or bad. Immoral men, immoral market. It\u2019s that simple. The real issue is \u201cwhat kind of men are we forming,\u201d not \u201cwhat bad things aren\u2019t men doing.\u201d Tragically, 90 percent of boys raised in the church will abandon it by the time they turn 20-years-old, so there is much work to be done.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cStatistics collected over two decades,\u201d says Von Drehle, \u201cshow an alarming decline in the performance of America\u2019s boys&#8211;in some respects, a virtual free fall. Boys were doing poorly in school, abusing drugs, committing violent crimes and engaging in promiscuous sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acton.org\/blog\/index.html?\/archives\/1831-Time-Magazine-Gets-It-Wrong-Boys-Are-Still-In-Crisis-And-Securing-An-Immoral-Marketplace.html&#038;wherefrom=email\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acton Power Blog | August 1, 2007 The boy crisis is not a myth. David Von Drehle\u2019s article, \u201cThe Myth About Boys,\u201d in this week\u2019s Time Magazine argues that the boy crisis of the 1990s has leveled off and is now improving. Not exactly. This assessment, however, is completely dependent on one\u2019s moral framework. Boys &#8230; <a title=\"Time Magazine Gets It Wrong: Boys Are Still In Crisis And Securing An Immoral Marketplace\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/time-magazine-gets-it-wrong-boys-are-still-in-crisis-and-securing-an-immoral-marketplace\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Time Magazine Gets It Wrong: Boys Are Still In Crisis And Securing An Immoral Marketplace\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}