@Moxie
Nice.
@Unarmed Gunman
So.. you
a) cite a study from 17 years ago - 1997
b) buy into the sensationalist title of the study
c) don't even notice the bad methods they used
Now, the study TEXT says (not the title):
...the most reliable indicator of violent crime in a community is the proportion of fatherless families....
There is a difference here, we are now looking at a community with a lot of fatherless families.
The premise that single parent families cause crime is not supported by this.
a) FATHERless - single parent households are also father only, so MOTHERLESS, this is not included in this study
b) community level - not family level
I think point B is salient here. Where do you find
communities without fathers?
Low socioeconomic parts of the society, which comes with a lot more problems than just not having daddy around.
And to share some of the more modern science:
(Note: I changed the layout for better readability, but source is included)
Individual risk factors:
antisocial behavior
emotional factors
cognitive development
hyperactivity
Family risk factors:
parenting
maltreatment
family violence
divorce
parental psychopathology
familial antisocial behaviors
teenage parenthood
family structure
family size
Peer risk factors:
association with deviant peers
peer rejection
School and community risk factors identified and reviewed were inclusive of themselves.
Interventions are discussed in the arenas of individual, family, peers, school, and community.
The Study Group stresses that the focus on risk factors is the key to preventing child delinquency.
To prevent child delinquency and its escalation in serious juvenile and adult offending, intervention methods must account for the wide range of individual, family, peer, school, and community risk factors.
Source:
https://www.ncjrs.gov/app/Search/Abstracts.aspx?id=193409
It simply is not as cut and dry when it comes to juvenile delinquency risk and resiliency factors.
For my point c (bad methodology)
According to a 1993 Metropolitan Life Survey, "Violence in America's Public Schools," 71 percent of teachers and 90 percent of law enforcement officials state that the lack of parental supervision at home is a major factor that contributes to the violence in schools. Sixty-one percent of elementary students and 76 percent of secondary children agree with this assessment.
So.. they use an even older survey (we are at 21 years back now) by an insurance company, and then cite the agreement of elementary students and secondary children?
Also, the
one study I cited before actually shows the more salient debate:
Does juvenile delinquency lead to adult delinquency? Even that is highly debated.
BUT
We are getting sidetracked!
So the guy included
some interesting things in his article. And even those are debatable. This does not make anything else valid.
It stays racist mouthbreather bullshit, hiding his fear of women behind "anti feminist" propaganda.
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