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Framing Youth: 10 Myths About the Next Generation Paperback – July 1, 2002

by Mike A Males (Author)

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Explores teen violence, morals, and drug use

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Common Courage Press (July 1, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1567511481
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1567511482
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches

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Kimberly B.

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Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2023

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Mike Males is an expert on youth. He has a website online but all of his material is not available day. I had a hard time finding it but worth the wait.

Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2015

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This book came out in the late Nineties, so it's important to remember that all of the teenagers in this book are in their late twenties and early thirties. But a little investigation will show that today's young people are much, much better than media and adult hand-wringing would have us believe. Males makes a very strong case that the Nineties teens were much, much better than the media, politicians, and general adult hand-wringing would have had us believe back then.

I'm sure that twenty years from now, there will be a lot of older folks wringing their hands and declaring that today's young people, this awful Twenty-Thirties generation, is quickly going to hell in a poorly made hand-basket, unlike the simpler and more innocent Twenty-Teens. And it won't be true then either. We need people like Males to tap us on the shoulder, point out some actual numbers, and remind us that it isn't the young folks going bad, it's just us getting old.

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Ajax the Great

Finally, the Courage To Tell It Like It Is

Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2009

Like in the aptly-titled "Scapegoat Generation," Mike Males' rapier wit cuts though all the bull that the media has been feeding America about my generation (I am 24) and where we are headed. We are NOT the worst generation in American history. "Superpredators," junkies, drunken killers, suicidal, videots, oversexed, selfish, lazy, ignorant, apathetic, stupid--while a few of us may very well fit that description, the silent majority are actually LESS likely to be like that than the boomers, or at least no worse. Males shows that crime, violence, drug abuse, drinking, binge drinking*, teen sex, and teen pregnancy have all been falling, not rising. And volunteering has been rising. And the statistics he gives pan out as well. For example, teen drug abuse has plummeted a lot since the '80s, but more drugs (especially hard drugs) are entering this country than ever before. Either the surveys are totally bunk, or something else is going on. Who is doing these drugs then? Middle-aged people, that's who! That's the elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about. And it is America's real drug abuse crisis. All that excess capital of the middle-aged of the 90's and early 2000s--just where IS that money going? Meanwhile Millennials get the shaft--taxes cut for the old, services cut for youth. Public schools are floundering, and higher education is more expensive than ever. Heathcare is ridiculously expensive, and is just getting progressively worse. Youth poverty remains persistent despite massive declines in old-age poverty. And we have the highest prison population in the entire world, even more than China. He forgot to mention that to top it off we will likely get nothing from the Social Security pyramid scheme even though we've been paying into it since the age of 16 on average. And the wholesale trashing of the planet that the past several generations have done. A generation in crisis indeed--but not for the reasons most people think, and the usual "panaceas" just make it worse.

*Not to promote drinking, but I wonder what the statstics would show if "binge" drinking used a 10/8-drinks/occasion definition instead of a 5/4-drinks definition. The latter of which is laughable IMO (5 drinks is a "binge?" come on now!), while the former (called "extreme drinking") is much more dangerous. However, Males reports what was already reported, and there are virtually no studies on extreme drinking. The only one to my knowledge was one of first-semester college freshmen in Fall 2003 that showed, while the vast majority (even among "binge" drinkers) did not participate in it, it was high enough to be a significant issue on campus. And no study looked at the change over time from say 1980 to the present, like is done with "binge" drinking. Although there is only anecdotal evidence to back up my claim, I believe it probably went up somewhat since the drinking age was raised to 21, even as drinking and "binge" drinking went down (and began declining before the age was raised, even in California which was 21 since 1933). When you criminalize and demonize normative drinking and force it ever deeper undergound, you also inadvertently normalize dangerous drinking. That is just basic action/reaction stuff a la Newton's third law of physics, and was demonstrated among both teens and adults during Prohibition.

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Jeffrey L. Thayer

Males "Blows the Cover"

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2001

I used Mike Males in a college research paper that I recently wrote, "The Politics of Sex Education," and found him fascinating. Since teenagers can't vote, they can't defend themselves against the avalanche of claims that are made against them. Fortunately, however, Males comes to their aid, arguing on their behalf, as their biggest defender anywhere. His writings were the most direct arguments that I found anywhere on teenage sexuality. I plan to read more of Males, although I can already imagine what he will say. He will defend teens against all charges, whether they are high violence rates, high drug rates, "promiscuous" sex, or tobacco use. He will help set the record straight. Teenagers aren't behaving any differently than the rest of us. They are just being blamed of all of it.

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Edward Cichowicz MD

Can you handle the Truth?

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2002

Framing Youth, author Mike Males' follow-up to The Scapegoat Generation, is simply the best book out there in regards to understanding our adolescents' "dreadful behavior". Politicians, the media, and even what we think of as "unimpeachable scientific agencies", have led us all, even us health professionals who work with adolescents on a daily basis, to believe such a distorted view of reality, in relation to our "problems with teens", that we routinely take what appear to be logically good decisions to benefit teens, then wonder why those kids "just don't get it". In reality, it's us adults who haven't yet "got it". Mike will take you through the Top Ten Reasons Why Kids Have a Bad Rep, and afterwards I guarantee you'll be a better health professional, community activist or politician in regards to understanding adolescent behavior. Just be sure you can handle the truth, because the enemy is us.

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