Men 'out-performed at university'

"... boys' academic performance is weakening as much as girls' is improving."

I think this one's the major reason...

There are fewer and fewer men teaching now. More and more boys are raised without fathers. Their self-confidence is at an all time low.

It has been known for decades that there are distinctly male and female patterns of asking questions about information. Having all female teachers has hurt boys.

Boys are also subject to a lot of intense "anti-sexism" training. When we do out-perform the women, such as in engineering and math, the results are deemed sexist, and the person making the suggestion, in this case the now ex-president of Harvard, lost his job.

Men have brought this on themselves over the generations with the treatment of their sons getting worse and worse, as yet another generation of men gets raised with fathers who are spiritually  absent from the home, even if they live there.

What seems to work is to separate the boys from the girls and give them male teachers, but this is resisted, and some feminist advocates refuse to believe that anything negative is going on in the schools to affect boys adversely. They simply believe in female superiority.

The result of sensory overload during the period before and just after birth may change the brain so that specific abilities are affected.  Later the child may have inadequate mechanical abilities.  He may not be able to see how things fit together: he might not be able to visualize the relationships of furniture in a room/ and he may not be able to understand how certain gears fit together.

These deficiencies may be a result of very early experiences predating birth, rather than inherited difficulties, as we have believed in the past. Of course, we should not ignore the tremendous impact of post-birth experiences.  For example, if parents refuse to let a child explore and touch things, his mechanical abilites may be diminshed.  That is, he will not be able to physically experience his environment, an essential for a mechanical ability.  Being kept passive in any apparatus (crib,stroller,high chair etc.)  dulls perceptions in the same way, simply because their is inadequate physical exploration of his world.  He becomes less perceptive in a total way.  It is this exploratory behavior that produces a child who has proper spatial concepts.

It is also why "Play is a Child's Work!.."

It would seem that given a good start in life, almost any kind of stress can be withstood later on.  Given a poor start just insures more problems later.  More importantly, a good start can mean a good ending, or at least an end which does not come prematurely   We all are familiar

with the work with animals that properly stimulated they live longer.  The mother's offspring also live longer if she had a good early life.  So those early months may well be a matter of life and death.  Those are the times even the Father must be around to help out .  A relaxe environment is important that the baby is not bombarded with loud noises..restricted too tightly with a blanket..not left wet, hungry or thirsty too long.  In short, the first months mean constant attention by parents

Society ought to recognise this as well.   Yes!  Even fathers should get some kind of leave

to attend to the most important job in the world...helping a new human being get the best

chance possible in life.

The Feeling Child Preventing neurosis in Children by Arthur Janov Ph.D..

I know this does not consider the male/ female disparities but one never knows for there

are many issues involved with learning problems which have increased greatly.  Psychological

needs are only physical needs symbolized.  They are one step away from reality.  Because they are derivative rather than real needs, one could have all his neurotic, symbolic needs satisfied

 and not be changed at all.  One could give a child everything and still he would be sick.

We have gone astray in our treatment because we have failed to make the proper distinction between real and unreal needs, and have therefore attempted to treat systemic problems cerebrally.    What we have accomplished is to change the mind of the person to think new thoughts while the bodily needs remain unchanged; and profound "personality" change cannot take place without access to underlying needs.