About 3 million U.S. schoolboys are being treated with Ritalin after being diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. Boys are three times as likely as girls to be diagnosed. Ninety percent of the world's Ritalin is used in the United States. A black boy in an urban area is more likely to die of a gunshot wound than was a black U.S. soldier who served in the Vietnam War. Boys drop out of high school at higher rates than girls.
More women graduate from college and graduate school than men.
Step one in coming to a better understanding of how boys grow up is a biology lesson. Boys are already set up to be more physically expressive and aggressive. Even though she offered a variety of playthings, her boys gravitated to the traditional. They can make anything into a toy gun. Virgil Covington, a middle school principal, has three children, including two sons.