Why A Concern For The Well Being of Boys Is So Important The Majority of adolescent alcoholics and drug addicts are male. Adolescent males are four times more likely than adolescent females to commit suicide. Boys are twice as likely as girls to be diagnosed as learning disabled. Two-thirds of high school special education and handicapped students are male.
Adolescent males drop out of high school at four time the rate of peer females.
Ninety percent of discipline problems in schools are males, as are most suspensions and expulsions. Boys on average receive lower grades than girls. Boys are significantly more likely than girls to die at the hands of their parents or step parents. Adolescent boys are fifteen times more likely than adolescent girls to be victims of violent crime. The majority of juvenile mental patients are male.