DADvocate and Jean Schmidt

Whenever I see something like this in the blogosphere, I try to highlight it because I know I can help. Since our readership extends in to Members of Congress and their staffs, I feel a certain responsibility to provide whatever assistance I can to focus on an issue when that really is important but isn't on the news every night. Today, that issue is the growing crisis facing boys and young men in this country.

DADvocate takes a paragraph or two to set this up, and you should read it, but here is his open letter to Congresswoman Jean Schmidt:

Over the past few years, it has, time and again, come to my attention that males are under represented in colleges, law schools, and medical schools across the country. Males drop out of high school at a much higher rate than females.

As the father of two girls and two boys, I believe it is past time to pay more attention to the fate of boys and young men in our country. Now, I've learned that some, such as Debra Rolison want to apply Title IX to science education. While such efforts to bring equal opportunity to women are laudable, boys and men are being ignored and left behind.

Not only is this grossly unfair to the boys and men of our country, we are squandering the precious human resources they offer our nation. Please initiate action to re-franchise our boys and men in our society.

Thank you.

Members of Congress: You know what to do...