I thought about that of looking at our risk youth.

Uh, sometimes the military is good at this.

College fraternities can be good at this.

And these are not positive examples of how to build a great human being, but they're good at creating that identity.

We have often lost joy.

Uh, I think we lost a lot of joy in our society pre-COVID with the digital emphasis in our, our lives, and then during COVID, we had a heavy digital emphasis.

And so what we see for a lot of young people is their most important relationships are thumb-based relationships, and that's not a joyful environment.

Women are going and getting their education, so there isn't that need in the same way there might have been seventy years ago.

... fast or slow?

So I s- uh, i- uh, over a long period of time.

So I started working soon thereafter, maybe three years after Nicholas, I noticed these things in my son Nicholas.

I started working in a Christian school, high school, and very quickly I noticed that we were graduating boys from this school, and the truth is I don't know of high schools that aren't graduating boys.

In fact, most colleges are graduating boys.

It's up to the young man at that point.

And even worse, most women are marrying boys hoping they'll become men.

Diminishing