The American family is falling apart

[outlawauron]

VGPolyglot said:

numberwang said:

Broken families and violence are highly linked, maybe even the strongest predictor of violence in life.

Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson has written that “Family structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictor of variations in urban violence across cities in the United States.” His views are echoed by the eminent criminologists Michael Gottfredson and Travis Hirschi, who have written that “such family measures as the percentage of the population divorced, the percentage of households headed by women, and the percentage of unattached individuals in the community are among the most powerful predictors of crime rates.”

https://ifstudies.org/blog/school-shootings-fathers-divorce-family-structure

Are you just going to continually ignore what we post?

To be fair, he's posting studies of some kind to back his position versus anecdotes. While you don't need two married parents to be successful in life, it's statistically a lot more likely for a child to turn out better with two parents.