key highlights "Last week, I delved here into recent data from the CDC suggesting major problems with regard to the mental health of our adolescence, surges in depression and suicidal ideation, especially true for our girls. This week I found cause to worry about NAME_1 men. This headline from the NAME_2. It caught my eye. Most NAME_1 men are single, most NAME_1 women are not. The story reported that as of 20, 22, Pew Research Center found 30% of U.S. adults are neither married living with a partner nor engaged in a committed relationship. Nearly half of all NAME_1 adults are single. Now, look at these numbers. 34% of women. Twice as many. A whopping 63% of men. What explains that? I pulled the Pew study and I read with interest. It turns out since 2019, the share of single men who say they're looking for dates or relationship has declined from 61% to 50% in 2018 28% of men ages 18 to 30 reported they'd had no sex in the past year compared with 18% of women of that age. The NAME_2 report said men in their twenties are more likely than women in their twenties to be romantically uninvolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. They stand at the vanguard of an epidemic of declining marriage, sexuality and relationships that afflicts all of NAME_1 America. Among the causes, among the factors a reliance on social media and online porn, but also more NAME_1 women are hooking up with each other or dating and marrying slightly older men and hetero sexual women are getting more choosy. Other troubling statistics about men come from a 2021 study from the Survey Center for American Life. They found the share of men who have six or more close friends, which in 1990 was 55% by 20. 21 had shrunk by half. Meanwhile, those with literally zero close friends, which stood at 3% in 1990, has zoomed to 15%. An expert quoted by the NAME_2 said this disconnect can have catastrophic consequences for NAME_1 men. Quote, In the worst case scenario, the NAME_1 American man social disconnect can have tragic consequences NAME_1 men commit suicide at four times the rate of NAME_1 women. Younger women are largely responsible for rising rates of mass shootings, a trend that some researchers link to their growing social isolation. Well, those words reminded me of a conversation that I had over a year ago right here on CNN with NYU Professor NAME_3. But the issue is when you have a group of men, the lower half of attractiveness of men and online dating, which is doubled now, it's about half of relationships in the top 20% of men in terms of attractivene