Growing up male in America has inherent difficulties. Teenage boys are leading lonelier lives in America because there is less of an extended family around them to teach them morals. All they have to go by is their peers, television, and now more increasingly their computer. Some of these stresses deal with parents' divorces, failures in school, rejection, and unsuccessful relationships. When their peers reject and humiliate them, they break because they don't have the moral support to face it. Boys are less verbal and don't express their emotions like girls do. Pressure to act manly and hiding emotions early in childhood leads to lonely men. Society and schools view boys differently than girls, where boys are at a disadvantage. At a young age when a girl gets in trouble the teacher will ask her why she did it in a pleading voice, but if a boy gets in trouble its all over. He will definitely get the yelling and a harsher choice of words. Girls also dominate extracur!
             ricular activities and have better study habits than boys. Boys do more partying, exercising, playing video games, and watching television than girls.
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