Many boys indulge in high-risk behavior as they search for their male identity.
Drugs, alcohol, violent behavior and underachievement in school plague many boys. Fourteen year-old Jerrod says that boys start using drugs and getting into trouble to become popular with their peers. Once you get there though, you're doing it to prove that you're a man. That's the problem, says Family counselor Kenneth Hoats. Hoats says that boys are engaging in high risk and self defeating behavior because of the fact that no one is teaching boys today what it is to be a man.