Lost Boys: Is demonising teenage boys part of the problem?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Boys are now falling behind girls in every metric at school. They're more likely to be out of work than girls, and they make up 98% of the youth prison intake.
There are also 2.5 million children growing up without a father figure and this seems to be impacting boys much more than girls.
But is part of the problem that boys are being told they're the problem?
One headteacher is hoping his groundbreaking scheme of volunteer male mentors will help change that.
Gareth Barlow is joined by Chris Edwards, the headteacher behind the project, and Sky’s home affairs editor Jason Farrell, who has spent months documenting his efforts to get it off the ground.
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| 0:08.4 | On the Sky News Daily with me, Gareth Barlow, as an increasing number of children are growing up without fathers at home, we explore why their sons seem to struggle the most and how one head teacher is changing their lives and bringing them hope. |
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| 1:25.2 | Knowing that your own father is not there growing up or, you know, you start to question yourself, |
| 1:30.3 | am I enough, am I the problem? |
| 1:32.3 | It's simple things like when I was learning to do a tie. |
| 1:34.3 | I was using YouTube when it's just, that's one of the moments you want to be able to go to a dad. |
| 1:39.3 | That's Raphael, who was just two when his dad left home. |
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