This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about

front-line theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping

them. I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville,

Kentucky.

Something is happening when it comes to young men in America and for that matter around the world.

It might be better stated that something is not happening.

What is not happening is that boys are not moving into manhood

at anything like what we might describe as on schedule.

Instead, we've entered a new, very, very troubling period in American life

in which the transition from boyhood to manhood is anything but clear,

and in many cases cases anything but happening.

Kaye Hymowitz is the William E. Simon Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, one of the nation's

most important think tanks. She's also a contributing editor of City Journal. She writes

extensively on issues including childhood, family issues, poverty, and

cultural change in America. You may know her well through her books including

marriage and cast in America, Liberation's Children,

and now her newest book, Manning Up, How the Rise of Women is Turning Men into Boys.

Cayheimer which really launched an assault upon the contemporary idea of manhood and of

adulthood in an article published in the Wall Street Journal in February the 10th of 2011 entitled

Where have the good men gone?

K Hamlets welcome to thinking in public.

Well thank you for having me.

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