Boys must be learned how to struggle to reduce knife crime and other serious violence, a former Tory Member of Parliament said.
Miriam Cats said that boys rough and tumbling ', otherwise they can remove their aggression in other ways.
The mother of three, considered a rising star in the party before she lost her chair in last year's elections, said that society was 'forgotten' that boys and girls are different.
The first must be able to express their 'congenital' characteristics of 'aggression', 'courageity' and 'competitiveness' in a controlled environment to help them succeed in life, she said.
She spoke to the launch of a report, Lost Boys, by the Center for Social Justice (CSJ) Think tank.
It states that there is a crisis that floods British men who are 'left behind', with absent fathers who are identified as one of the issues.
It also warns that young men earn less on average than their female counterparts in a striking reversal of the pay gap between men and women.
“We have to teach our young boys to struggle,” said Mrs. Cates during the launch of the report in Westminster.
Mother of three and former Tory MP Miriam Cates said that boys rough and tumbling ', otherwise they can remove their aggression in other ways
Mrs. Cates suggested wrestling like an outlet for teenage boys
Mrs. Cates has argued that wrestling boys can help use their 'natural aggression' and reject them from violent crimes
She added: 'One of the things that Joel [from charity Lads Need Dads] Is just struggling with these young boys, because how should a boy learn how to have self -control about his natural ability to fight if he doesn't learn that by fighting someone who is older and stronger?
'That's how guys learn, right? It is by struggling people that they can actually hurt.
'If the first fight you have is a real one, and you put someone down, go to prison.
'But if you are taught to control that natural aggression and use it positively, you will become a brave young man.
'I don't know if any of you has viewed the BBC series Sas Rogue Heroes – that's what men can do, and that's where we have to say that men are good for … they need rough and tumbling.
“They must be able to express their competitiveness. If we pretend they don't need that and they can just be treated as girls and can be in young men, that would be a mistake and I think we went wrong. '
The report outlines how the proportion of young men compared to young women who do not go from education to work or training, thirty years is growing steadily.
Since the pandemic alone, the number of men aged 16 to 24 that has not increased in education, employment or training (NEET) by a stunning 40 percent compared to only seven percent of women.
