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Men—and the boys who aspire to become men—are in a sorry state. If only there were an organization to encourage boys to strive for goodness, self-mastery, and excellence! Of course, such an institution already exists—or at least it did. What happened to it? Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute has the answer.

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Do you think girls should be allowed into the Boy Scouts? Let us know your answer below 👇

PragerU
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My Scoutmaster was my father figure. My bio father was a narcissistic alcoholic. Boy Scouts saved me and gave me opportunities I would have never had. I learned to tie knots, hike, camp, and survive. I am one of the youngest Eagle Scouts, earning it at 13. Later in life, when I had to administer First Aid, I used my Boy Scout skills. In the Army, when my team and I were trapped on a mountain for 7 days in 3 feet of snow, my Boy Scout skills saved us. I'm almost 70 and I can still repeat the Scout Law from memory...
We need a few good men to turn this around.

kunibeasley
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I'm a 52 year old female, and remember cringing when there were court fights to allow girls into the boy scouts, on football teams, and later women into men's clubs. It NEVER should have happened.

WTHshedoingnow
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I'm a woman myself and I firmly believe that there should be spaces that are for women only and men only. Firstly because, everyone deserves a private space of their own. Secondly, because sisterhood and brotherhood matter. Knowing how to have bonds with your own gender matters. It even rubs me the wrong way as an artist when people take fictional roles or groups that were masculine only then forcing them to include women. It's like forcing there to be a male Wonder Woman. Boys need things that are just for them just like girls need stuff that is just for them.

mk_wizard
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I lost my father when I was nine. The boy scouts really helped me. Learned about leadership which helped me become a CEO later in life. Male influences are not a bad thing. We all need them. It's possible to be balanced.

kengilmore
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I was a boy scout in the 60's. I've watched the ruin of the Boy Scouts over the decades and it's a shame.

Rastonification
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I was a Boy Scout back in the day. Telling my grandchildren not to join. They have lost their way and become meaningless.

jefferysmith
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I became an Eagle Scout back in 2014, the 4th man in my family to do so. The Boy Scouts as an organization meant so much to me and my family, especially my grandfather. It breaks my heart to see what the organization has become since I became an Eagle. I used to say that I would want my future son(s) to follow in my footsteps and join the Boy Scouts like I did, but unless they right their wrongs soon, I will refuse to let them. I can only imagine how much my grandfather is rolling in his grave because of what the Boy Scouts have become.

maxwinters
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I was a Scoutmaster for years, and our son is an Eagle Scout. Many of the boys in my troops were raised by single moms, and it was so rewarding to see those boys grow in skills, confidence, and leadership. I’m glad we were in Scouting when we were, because we would not recognize it now.

David-nxvm
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I worked in National Youth Leadership camps for BSA for 4 summers as an adult leader, 2 years boys only and 2 years co-ed. The introduction of girls took the older boys' attention away from the younger boys. The younger boys just goofed off with no one to correct them, and the older boys either chased the girls or held back from hanging out with the younger boys in case that was not cool to the girls. The older girls were fine, but the younger girls pursued the older boys.

The whole model was lost. What a shame.

friendsinthefold
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I shot my first gun and got to experience snow for the first time when I was in the BSA (Troop 185, southern California 1980s). I was a poor scout, didn't earn many badges or patches, but we camped every month, planning menus. Thank you, Kurt Pringle, Mark Leyes and Jiggs Harold for the memories.

anthonycharles-di
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It's not just the boy scouts. I ordered my annual girl scout cookies this past year from a friend's daughter. Cookies came in and one of the kids on the box was a little boy with a girlscout dress on. Absolutely sickening.

evilchaperone
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I’m a 48 yr old Eagle Scout. My three brothers were all Eagle Scouts. Sadly none of our sons earned their Eagle Scout awards. I turned my back to the scouting program when they took boy out of their name. Thank you telling this story. The wold probably doesn’t care anymore but us old timers still remember how scouting made us into men.

jamesyates
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Until about 2010 I supported the Boy Scouts AND Girl Scouts in any way I could.
Now I support neither in any way.

BayWulf
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I earned Eagle Scout back in 1972 and went on to earn another 20 merit badges before turning 18. This was when boys were boys and the scouting program helped me keep out of trouble, work hard on myself and help others grow with healthy challenges, hiking, climbing, swimming, testing our survival skills and so much more. It helped shape young boys into dependable, strong men with morals. We pushed us to not to give up, protect those who were not as strong and a myriad of other personal growth challenging activities. It's a crying shame the kids now a days don't have a scouting program like what I enjoyed. It shaped my whole life to be so much better than I ever would have without it. I still try to live by the scout oath and law.

JHarv
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The local scouting is now 90% about the girls. My son sensed it and lost interest. The whole thing is a tragedy.

merpius
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This makes no sense. We have the boy scouts and we have the girl scouts why do you have to put a girl in boy scouts. The girl scouts can have the same things as the boy scouts if they want to. Change the girl scouts not change the boy scouts for girls

purebredamericanmutt
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The death of this instituition is deeply sad to me. I am an Eagle scout and my boys will have nothing to do with this organization that is no longer "Morally strait"

JoshuaHarris-wg
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In Boy Scouts, older scouts would correct bad kids behaviors and be the role models younger kids needed. In time, they became the people they strived to be through individual struggles with a support system from their piers. What helped the demise of the program? Too many nanny parents interjecting because they could have their kid fail and learn from their own failures. This made the troops weak and since the older scouts had to deal with emotional parents, they left. So troops became a round kid oriented vs retaining the core of the program. Then they started changing everything and it no longer was a program to push and test your abilities, but to just go to a pampered program that got political. I am from the Boy Scout program that was heavily involved and had to deal with parents, correcting younger scouts, and so on as a youth. I was happy to have gone through it when it was a challenge vs easy street. Too bad this program fell down the politics road and failed the youth involved.

hawkman
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After cheating on my mom multiple times for years and her giving him many chances to get his crap together, my dad abandoned his wife and seven kids to go live a homosexual life in San Francisco. I'll never be able to fully understand him, he died of AIDS when I was just 16. Never really knew him. I'm incredibly fortunate that I grew up in the LDS church and had the scouting program along with the church's young men's program. I have no doubt I wouldn't still be here today if I didn't have the examples and structure and principles that were taught to me. What a time we live in.

MrTmax