2.5 Million Fatherless Children, Boys Hit Hardest
NEET males up 40% since pandemic as Labour trains teachers on Tate risks
Labour's £20m school interventions target boy misogyny amid 40% male NEET rise, 87% youth homicide victims male, and 2.5m fatherless homes. Policies miss family roots, perpetuating cross-party youth decline.
Labour commits £20 million to train teachers in spotting boys at risk of Andrew Tate influence.
Schools must deliver lessons on consent and misogyny, with guidance to flag and “de-radicalise” high-risk pupils.
This targets 11-year-olds showing behaviours equated to knife crime by minister Jess Phillips.
Male youth outcomes reveal the real crisis.
Since the pandemic, males aged 16-24 not in education, employment or training rose 40 percent, versus 7 percent for females.
Boys comprise two thirds of unemployed 16-24-year-olds.
Suicide kills three quarters of under-50 men.
In 2022-23, boys formed 87 percent of homicide victims aged 16-24, and nine in 10 teenage violence victims.
Males dominate 96 percent of the prison population in England and Wales.
Family Breakdown Drives the Data
2.5 million UK children grow without fathers.
This absence correlates with boys’ drift into purposelessness, vulnerability to online radicals, and cycles of violence.
Governments across parties expanded welfare since 1997, correlating with family fragmentation and male disengagement.
State interventions multiply, yet father figures dwindle.
Interventions Ignore Roots
Labour’s plan expands nanny-state controls, stripping school autonomy via the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Phillips dodges specifics on triggers for 11-year-old interventions, claiming no need to “teach teachers to suck eggs.”
Past governments imposed similar mandates, from screen bans to curriculum overhauls, without reversing youth declines.
Boys seek laughs via Sidemen videos, not Tate’s raw-egg rants, yet policy paints them as predators-in-waiting.
Cross-Party Continuity
Conservatives oversaw the NEET surge and prison male dominance before Labour’s election.
Both parties housed migrant offenders while domestic violence persisted.
Policies champion state training over parental roles or male mentors.
Taxpayers fund £20 million in teacher courses amid 10.4 million working-age disability claims, per recent data.
Systemic Misdirection
Functional governance would enforce child maintenance, cut welfare disincentives to two-parent homes, and fund male apprenticeships.
Instead, interventions treat masculinity as pathology.
This sustains boys’ marginalisation, from nurseries where females outperform to universities where males vanish.
Girls gained from century-long advances; boys now lag.
Demonising boys accelerates their alienation, feeding the very influences policies target.
UK institutions document symptoms while causes—family erosion, male purposelessness—fester across governments.
This reveals a society engineering its own youth divide, with males bearing violence, prisons, and inactivity as prices of inaction.
State fixes paper over deepening social fractures.
Commentary based on Demonising teenage boys won’t produce a generation of good men by Camilla Tominey on The Telegraph.