i delved into data showing problems with the mental health of youth, surges in depression or especially true for our girls. this week i found cause to worry ab young men. this headline from the hill caught my eye. most young hen are single, most young women are not. the story reported as of 2022, the research center found 30% of adults are neither married or living with a partner nor engage ed. half of all young adults single. look at these numbers. 34% of women, twice as many, a whopping 63% of men, what explains that? i pulled the study and read with interest. it turns out since 2019, the she single men looking for dates or relationship has declined from 61% to 50%. in 2018, 28% of men ages 18 to 30 reported they had no sex in the past year compared with 18% of women of that age. the hill report said men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. they stand at the vanguard of an epidemic of de
believe in climate change. this is the american story. it it s written with a pen whose ink is failing young men does not end well. this is a. professor galloway was back with me now is scott gall wit. he s a professor of marketing. he s a vserial entrepreneur he the host of podcast and author of best-selling books most recently adistrict. america in 100 charts. scott, thank you for returning. hasn t the advantage always been to those with the looks and/or the money, what s changed? first, i want to say thank you for raising this issue a year ago when a lot of media companies were afraid to talk about this for fear of it being pro men was anti-women. this is returning to the natural order of things for the majority of history a small percentage of
stood at 3% has zoomed to 15%. an expert ordered by the hill saud this disconnect could have consequences for young men. in the worst case scenario, the young american man can have tragedy you can kconsequences, they commit suicide at four full-times the rate, women are sonl for rising rates of mass shootings, a trend that some link to their growing social isolation. those words reminded me of a conversation that i had over a year ago right here on cnn with nyu professor scott gall way. the issue is when you have a group of men, the lower half of attractiveness anden line dating, and the top 20% of men in terms of attractiveness, you are end up with a group of men more prone to conspiracy theory, more prone to believe or not