Editorial: Beware the Child-Man?

Hymowitz dubbed this new generation of young men with the derogatory title “Child-men”, saying that because of their attraction to [VIDEO GAMES AND CABLE TV] and their seeming lack of strong commitment skills that we had a maturity gap emerging within society. Young men were no longer rushing to the altar or marrying childhood sweethearts and she seems to place the cause of this on games for one. These “Child-men” came to light because she had spoken with a number of young women and these ladies had decried the lack of good candidates for marriage on the traditional timescale.

It’s a thoughtful piece, written by someone who had kids at 21 but who knows the sort of folk out with whom I hang.

There is no big game to be hunted, there are no nations to be conquered, and flower-child-love-hippies are so 1968.

Short of perpetuating overpopulation, video games are the preferred indulgence of the young middle class male, and what’s wrong with that?