Effects of Family Structure on Crime

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The question is: Do the broken families created by leftists in Aid for Dependent Children create the crimes which leftists are using as an excuse to confiscate people's right to defend themselves.

Answer?.......



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Effects of Family Structure on Crime

1. Broken Families and Crime
The scholarly evidence suggests that at the heart of the explosion of crime in America is the loss of the capacity of fathers and mothers to be responsible in caring for the children they bring into the world. This loss of love and guidance at the intimate levels of marriage and family has broad social consequences for children and for the wider community. The empirical evidence shows that too many young men and women from broken families tend to have a much weaker sense of connection with their neighborhood and are prone to exploit its members to satisfy their unmet needs or desires. This contributes to a loss of a sense of community and to the disintegration of neighborhoods into social chaos and violent crime. If policymakers are to deal with the root causes of crime they must deal with the rapid rise of illegitimacy.

Consider the following findings:

Over the past fifty years, the rise in violent crime parallels the rise in families abandoned by fathers.
High-crime neighborhoods are characterized by high concentrations of families abandoned by fathers.
State-by-state analysis, by scholars from the Heritage Foundation, indicates that a 10 percent increase in the percentage of children living in single-parent homes leads typically to a 17 percent increase in juvenile crime.
The rate of violent teenage crime corresponds with the number of families abandoned by fathers.
The type of aggression and hostility demonstrated by a future criminal often is foreshadowed in unusual aggressiveness as early as age five or six.
The future criminal tends to be an individual rejected by other children as early as the first grade who goes on to form his own group of friends, often the future delinquent gang.

On the other hand:

Neighborhoods with a high degree of religious practice are not high-crime neighborhoods.
Even in high-crime inner-city neighborhoods, well over 90 percent of children from safe, stable homes do not become delinquents. By contrast only 10 percent of children from unsafe, unstable homes in these neighborhoods avoid crime.
Criminals capable of sustaining marriage gradually move away from a life of crime after they get married.
The mother's strong affectionate attachment to her child is the child's best buffer against a life of crime.
Strong parental bonds will significantly decrease the chance that the child will commit an act of violence.1).....
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The answer is yes, leftists in fact are creating the crime which leftists are using as an excuse to disarm you against crime. So go ahead, argue with the numbers.
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Guess Which Mass Murderers Came From A Fatherless Home

As more information slowly seeps out about Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old who murdered nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, one fact should surprise exactly no one: Roof came from a broken home. Roof’s parents divorced three years before he was even born, later reuniting just long enough to produce a child who would later become a mass murderer.

The media loves to find an easy scapegoat for mass shootings, whether it be the pharmaceutical industry, the National Rifle Association, or even Donald Trump. Of course these scapegoats are designed to fit the politically correct narrative, and they are an easy sell (especially when it’s all Donald Trump’s fault, as Americans increasingly love to blame the proverbial 1 percent for their sorrows). Scapegoats serve another purpose, too: they ensure the media can avoid the uncomfortable truth that unstable homes produce unstable individuals.

We Explore Every Angle Except Father Absence
In the aftermath of tragedies like Charleston or Sandy Hook, Americans hear the shared characteristics of the shooters: typically they are young males who obtained a gun (duh), used drugs (legally or illegally), dropped out of school, and committed or planned suicide as the grand finale to their murders. But to focus on these characteristics is to focus arbitrarily on the 12 to 24 months before the shooting. It ignores the roots of the problem: the household.

As University of Virginia Professor Brad Wilcox pointed out back in 2013: “From shootings at MIT (i.e., the Tsarnaev brothers) to the University of Central Florida to the Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy in Decatur, Ga., nearly every shooting over the last year in Wikipedia’s ‘list of U.S. school attacks’ involved a young man whose parents divorced or never married in the first place.” His observation is largely ignored.

In contrast, conversations about black-on-black violence often raise the link between broken households (or fatherless homes) and juvenile delinquency. But when the conversation turns to mass shootings, we seem to forget that link altogether.

Now, this isn’t to say that every single mom is doomed to raise a mass shooter. Not every kid who grows up without his father will turn into Roof, and not every mass shooter grew up without his dad. Mental instability can be a product of any number of factors. But to ignore the link between a mass shooter and his fatherless childhood would be to simply ignore the facts.....
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manbearpig

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When confronted with the irrefutable, the defeated resort to personal attacked. Par for the course
You Defending the brainwashed dummies seems to be Par for the course as well.

For the record I believe there’s correlation between bad family structure and crime. That’s kind of obvious. But squids premise is about as full retard as it gets.
 
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mundus

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The highest rates of divorce are in the god fearing Republican southern states.
 

Duffy LaCoronilla

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I couldn’t imagine my wife keeping a lid on my our by herself. He’s a good kid but he’s also a fuckking beast, full of testosterone and like most other teens prone to impulse control problems.
 

hammies

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A guy I knew a long time ago was the SBPD Crime Analyst. He showed me an overlay map of single-parent households and crime rates. Almost perfect match.
 

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"Broken families created by leftists..."

LOL

Mundus is right about the geography with respect to divorce:


As far as Single mother households, 14 of the 18 states that are above the national average voted for Trump.

 
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mundus

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"Broken families created by leftists..."

LOL

Mundus is right about the geography with respect to divorce:


As far as Single mother households, 14 of the 18 states that are above the national average voted for Trump.

Once again the angry mouthbreathers project their sins on the magical left.
 

GDaddy

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Even some of the state-run entitlement programs are funded in part with federal money. These policies exist at the national level. But since we're looking at the distribution of single parent families there are other ways to sort.
 

afoaf

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Even some of the state-run entitlement programs are funded in part with federal money. These policies exist at the national level. But since we're looking at the distribution of single parent families there are other ways to sort.
such as....?
 

GDaddy

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A lot of black fathers are incarcerated.
There are ~73M children under the age of 18. Of those ~25% of them live in single parent households. Some data sources include kids living in households with cohabitating parents, so that's another 7% - 9% depending on who's counting. But I wouldn't call that an actual single parent household.

Meanwhile there are a total of ~2M people who are incarcerated in the state/federal prisons.
 
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GDaddy

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81.5% of single parent households are headed by women. Of the single mothers, 50% of them were never married, 29% of them are divorced and 21% are either separated or widowed. 70% of divorces are initiated by the wife.

50% - Never married
20.3% - Divorced, mom-initiated (.70 x .29 = .203)
14.7% - Separated/widowed, mom-initiated (.70 * .21 = .147)
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85% of single moms are there by choice, less whatever percentage are actually widowed.

Sorry/not sorry
 
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FecalFace

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divorce doesn't always infer fatherlessness
This.

Also, a lot of the screeching about “traditional family” comes from the people who are stuck in unhappy relationships and who don’t have the courage to change their circumstances.

Which circles back to their favorite feeling - spitefulness. GDaddy talks about eternal adolescence and how terrible it is to just go surfing and be happy.

Everybody should be miserable in relationships just like they are because that’s what real men do.

How does a child benefit exactly growing up with miserable parents who don’t get along?