Boy Scouting
Boy Scouting is possibly about to declare bankruptcy. I will here consider the reasons for this. The first major question is why is Boy Scouts close to bankruptcy while girl scouts is not. The answer is multi-faceted but I will attempt to answer it. The biggest reason is that Boy Scouts faces 140 suits over sexual abuse of scouts. The boy scouts kept a very large file of banned scout leaders. It has been forced into the open. On the other hand, some of the suits involve leaders who were never in the file. Many of these suits bate back 30 years or more. Boy scouts is not the only organization facing bankruptcy over this issue. about 20 Catholic dioceses have filed for bankruptcy protection. So has USA Gymnastics, which is mainly saddled with the Dr. Nassar scandal, but also faces lots of issues with abuse by coaches. The answer to why Boy Scouts faces this problem but girl scouts does not is probably because men are much more likely to commit sexual abuse against children than w...