Though girls attempt suicide more often, more boys succeed. In The War Against Boys, Christina Hoff Sommers writes that boys receive ADHD diagnoses three times as often as girls. The preferred solution is often drugs. Previous generations achieved a balance between a strict, academically based classroom and a healthy dose of fresh air and running and jumping and climbing at recess. She notes that all students benefit from recess, but boys absolutely need it.
Boys have no such protectors.
These policies, which stem largely from the feminist denial that there are no innate differences between boys and girls reach down into preschools and daycare centers. In 1994 Congress passed the Gender Equity Act. Christina Hoff Sommers describes some of the ways in which preschool educators attempt to prevent gender stereotyping. Children are often discouraged from playing exclusively with same-sex classmates, even though that is their preference. And role-play, with boys acting as girls and visa versa is used as a way to try to convince kids that boys and girls are the same.