all races. Those are overwhelmingly your troublemaking or violent kids in schools. It's actually a little speech I give to students every now and then, when I share my observations from outside of education, of the people who can never hold down jobs. The one consistent characteristic they all have is that they cannot bear to be subordinate and obedient to someone in authority. Their mothers typically visit their neuroses and bitterness on their kids, many times seeing their sons as synonymous with their ex-boyfriends who fathered these boys. Fathers overwhelmingly are the parents who set limits and enforce discipline, so these boys are hit with mothers who want to make them feel dependent upon them while also being indulged and allowed to do whatever they want. Little wonder that they react so poorly when they encounter men who try to tell them what to do or criticize them, no matter how delicately.
What we see happening culturally right now is most attributable to what Whitlock terms "the matriarchy." Men have not stepped up and as a result, women are increasingly setting the rules. Unsurprisingly, far from getting a more conciliatory culture where consensus is more easily reached, we get more bickering and divisions, not less.