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The Limited Presence of Male Mentors in the Lives of Boys and Young Men
RAND
2025.11.28
Boys and young men face a series of challenges as they navigate the transition from adolescence to adulthood, and new survey data, collected by us and others, suggest that these challenges span several critical developmental domains. For example, compared with girls, boys today earn lower grades in school, have lower literacy rates, are more likely to be suspended, are more likely to drop out of high school, are less likely to enroll in college, and are less likely to earn a college degree (Reeves, 2022). In young adulthood, men are more likely than women to be disconnected―that is, not participating in education, employment, or job training (Wenger and Bonds, 2025). Moreover, young men are more likely than young women to be single (Juteau, 2023) and to live at home with their parents (Loo, 2024). Of particular concern is how these developmental challenges might be contributing to the rise in male suicide. Men are four times more likely than women to die by suicide; rates of suicide increased by 26 percent between 2010 and 2023 among men between the ages of 15 and 24 (Reeves and Secker, 2023).