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Camilla Cavendish

Boys are in crisis, but it’s adults who need educating

The real problem that hit Netflix series “Adolescence” has raised is one that hand-wringing over “toxic masculinity” won’t solve.

Young men are in trouble. But even as this finally starts to be recognised, I worry we will get nowhere if legitimate concerns about knife crime and toxic influencers are turned into just another attack on masculinity.

In recent weeks parents have been rocked by the Netflix drama Adolescence, in which a 13-year-old boy is accused of murdering a girl, after being sucked into a dark world online.

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Camilla Cavendish is an FT columnist, Harvard Fellow and former head of PM David Cameron's policy unit.

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