here's another good blurb. mentioned in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY of all places "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. The nation's mayors, as well as police officers, social workers, probation officers, and court officials, consistently point to family break up as the most important source of rising rates of crime." more cites? sure in addition to my others - Research indicates a direct correlation between crime rates and the number of single-parent families in a neighborhood. Douglas Smith and G. Roger Jarjoura, "Social structure and Criminal Victimization," Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Children raised in single parent families are one third more likely to be Structure and Children's Health and Well-Being: Data From the 1988 Interview Survey on Child Health," paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population buttociation of America, May 1990. black children from single- parent households are twice as likely to commit crimes as black children from a family where the father is present. Nearly 70 percent of juveniles in state reform insbreastutions come from fatherless homes, as do 43 percent of prison inmates - William Bar, "Crime, Poverty, and Family," Heritage Foundation Lectures, July 29, 1992, citing statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. it's all about cultural capitol, to paraphrase sowell. cultures that have higher OOW (out of wedlock births) fatherless householdssingle parent households have higher crime rates. poverty IS the problem. but not monetary poverty. poverty of cultural capital, as exhibited by one parent (fatherless) households. whit
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