*Over the past thirty 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 Heritage scholars 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.
*The father's authority and involvement in raising his children are also a great buffer against a life of crime.
*The scholarly evidence, in short, 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.
the evidence speaks for itself Fathers are VERY VERY important! We need them.
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This is inaneStatistically fathers are the breadwinners. Not ALWAYS. Not even a HUGE majority. But for the most part.60% Voted for by Weydon, petethemeat, me alone.
Most criminals come from a poor background. ANY single parent is MUCH more likely to have a lower income, let alone a single mother--when women often make less in the same position. OBVIOUSLY a single women would be more likely to be poor, and her son would be the one raised in a poorer environment conductive to crimes.
MOST kids are "criminals". When about 51% of marriages are divorced, you have a 50/50 shot of being one or other. Nothing outrageous is happening here. I know plenty of kids screwed up from abusive homes, and made stronger from broken homes. And I also know the opposite. To be blunt, "it" happens.
More to the point, am I the only one abundantly CONFUSED by this graph? Throwing in "source: FBI" doesn't exactly help when the graph is saying nothing at all (and quite obviously slanted with the unrelated "ABORTION" statistic for no reason. like abortions made a 14 year old homicide). Tinypic.com is not the FBI, and the sudden drop from 1996(1980) to 2001(1985) goes uncovered in this topic. What happened? In that timeframe kids in that age group were in some random upshoot of NON-divorced homes? -
hmmm....I really dont think fathers have anything to do with crime. From what I have observed in my area most kids lean to their mothers. Their fathers are providing for the family and are only home at certain times. That being said that could affect someone but not to become violent. It tends to make them sad or depressed or even have difficult relationships with the male species. I have noticed that kids who have 'relationships' with their fathers have more problems than those that dont. Thats just around my lovely little crap hole where deadbeat dads are at a high and Brady Bunch dads are very slim. I dont think it really makes a difference who is in the persons life. They are gonna do what they are gonna do.Voted for by Stepherz804.
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fathersto me it's simple to understand. Not always but most usually fathers give a home stability. But, this is going under the assumption the father is a good man now..LOL.Voted for by Energizer Bunny.
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