Speaker: Leonard Sax, MD, PhD
Dr. Sax earned his bachelor’s degree in biology from MIT, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa in five semesters at the age of 19. He then went on to the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned both his PhD in psychology, and his MD. He has more than 30 years experience as a family physician. Dr. Sax has led workshops for more than 500 schools not only all across North America, but also in Australia, Bermuda, England, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Scotland, Spain, and Switzerland. He has written four books for parents:
- Why Gender Matters
- Boys Adrift
- Girls on the Edge
- The Collapse of Parenting, which was a New York Times bestseller
He has been a guest for the TODAY Show, CNN, Headline News, PBS, Fox News, NPR’s Weekend Edition, the BBC, and many other national and international media. His essays about child and adolescent issues have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, First Things, and many other outlets. You can watch some of the TV interviews, read some of his articles, and link to his recent interviews with (for example) Megyn Kelly and Bishop Robert Barron, at www.leonardsax.com.
Topic
Across the United States, boys are failing to achieve their potential. They are falling behind their sisters in school. They are now less likely than their sisters to attend college and much less likely to graduate from college. Able-bodied young men are now much more likely than able-bodied young women to be NEET: neither employed, nor in education, nor in training. Those young men are just sitting in their parents’ basements, playing video games and looking at porn. At 30 years of age.
But girls are not the winners here. Girls and young women today are much more likely than any generation before to be anxious and/or depressed. And all this is happening despite the fact that American parents are investing more time and more money in their kids than any generation of parents before them. What’s going on? And what can parents do differently, to improve outcomes for their kids? Those are some of the questions Dr. Sax will raise and answer in this presentation.
