bringing up boys presenter: monica porter lewis module: family and consumer studies date:...
DESCRIPTION
Bringing Up Boys Survey Reveals Many Jamaicans Living Alone (2012, December 19). The Daily Gleaner revealed that 55.3% single Female-headed households with children and no man residentTRANSCRIPT
Bringing Up Boys
Presenter: Monica Porter LewisModule: Family and Consumer StudiesDate: Thursday, December 17, 2015
Background
• International Labour Organization ( ILO) 2013 findings more women are into top management
• 80 of the 108 countries female mangers• Jamaica 59.3 % in comparison to Pakistan 3%
Bringing Up Boys
• Survey Reveals Many Jamaicans Living Alone (2012, December 19). The Daily Gleaner revealed that 55.3% single Female-headed households with children and no man resident
Bringing Up Boys
• Traditional role as man as provider shifting• Female s are providers
Bringing Up Boys
• Based on the number of mothers in the workplace what are the implications for sons:
Bringing Up Boys
Social scientists warning about boys and menBooks• Men at Risk• Marginalization of the Black Male• The Rise of Matriarchy in the CaribbeanRadio Programmes
Bringing Up Boys
• Fathers Incorporated protect the image of fatherhood. They conduct workshops, seminars, and conferences to address various aspects of fatherhood.
Bringing Up Boys
“They are the majority of Jamaicans murdered each year; they are also the majority of Jamaicans committing the murders, and they are the majority of Jamaicans ending up in the island's prisons. They are boys and young men, some as young as 14, none older than 30.” The Daily Gleaner November 2015,
Bringing Up Boys
Boys, when compared to girls, are:• six times more likely to have learning
disabilities• three times more likely to be registered drug
addicts • four times more likely to be diagnosed as
emotionally disturbed.
Bringing Up Boys
They are at greater risk for: schizophrenia autismsexual addiction alcoholismBedwettingand all forms of antisocial and criminal behaviour. (Dobson, 2001)
Bringing Up Boys
They are twelve times more likely to murder someone their rate of death in car accidents is greater than 50 % 77 % of delinquency-related court cases involve males (Dobson, 2001).
Bringing Up Boys
Holder-Nevins et al (2012) found out that adolescent nine to 19years accounted for 14% of all suicide cases in Jamaica.• and that adolescent suicide rates are trending
upward. trends by gender are divergent with males moving upward and females shifting downward.
Bringing Up Boys
• male suicides which constitute more than 75 percent of all adolescent suicides
Bringing Up Boys
• Socialization
Bringing Up Boys
• Conclusion
Bringing Up Boys
• Thank you
• Questions ?
