ai-girlfriends
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 16, 2026 Last month Fortune warned that teen boys are choosing AI girlfriends over real ones for “maximum control, zero rejection,” and that this will leave a generation unemployable. The Institute for Family Studies called the same trend “counterfeit connections.” On Valentine’s Day, AI companion
mens-issues
By Stacey Tallitsch | May 15, 2026 Every six months the headlines run the same hand-wringing piece. Boys are falling behind in school. Men make up only 42% of college students. Young men are "in trouble" — disengaged, unmotivated, anxious, vanishing. The diagnosis is always the same. Something is
mens-issues
On May 4, JAMA Pediatrics published the first major study tracking what happens to American fathers in the years after their kids are born. Northwestern researchers followed 130,267 babies born in Georgia in 2017 and looked at how many of their dads were dead five years later. The press