Recently offered on Facebook:
"A full 85 percent of youths in prison come from fatherless homes, as do 80 percent of rapists, 71 percent of high school dropouts, and 63 percent of teen suicides.
In The Atlantic Monthly, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead wrote that the "relationship (between single-parent families and crime) is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime . This conclusion shows up time and again in the literature."
This is either true or it's not. It doesn't demonize single moms. It begs for society to fix the broken family."
Comments:
Let me get this strait - add a man and all problems in society are resolved.
Any chance that "fatherless homes" could be another symptom of root cause(s) and not the root cause?
Why is it that this seems to support a particular family configuration that is defined by some groups as God's preference?
Shouldn't society concentrate on assisting family confirmations of all types raise more ethical and moral children? Note - I do not believe that ethical and moral based beliefs and behavior are necessarily the result of nor dependent on religion.
