And if you actually listen to what young men are saying about their own lives, the picture gets a lot darker. Forty-three percent of these young men say they’re inclined to think of themselves as failures. For generations, we’ve told men that they don’t matter and don’t belong, and, unfortunately, they are finally listening to us. Men, and society at large, fare better when a high percentage of them are in the workforce. Churches and civic groups still correlate with better outcomes, yet they reach a shrinking share of young men.