fatherlessness

Perhaps fatherlessness doesn't cause crime so much as it makes you more vulnerable to the criminal justice system.

Countries all over the world with high levels of fatherlessness suffer from high levels of violence by young men.

So fatherlessness begets fatherlessness.

Pair this with the abject poverty and fatherlessness caused by Apartheid, and you have yourself an unruly and violent populace.

For example - fatherlessness creates more violent individuals and the data proves it, let's fix that.

So many average joes prefer escaping into video games and generally checking-out, epidemic of fatherlessness, etc.

But solving fatherlessness solves a lot of other problems besides stealing Kias and Hyundais too.

A far more substantive reason for the prevalence of crime among adolescence and young adults can be attributed to fatherlessness (1)(2)(3)(4).

But this proves the lead point that fatherlessness does not cause crime, poverty does.

Adding immobilizers to Kias and Hyundais is probably easier than solving fatherlessness.

He said that Black families had better standards of living before the Civil Rights Act, referencing both household incomes, rates of fatherlessness, and crime rates.

It must have taken quite some guts and determination to spin this into a story that claims that fatherlessness is the root cause of crime.

Reducing gun violence means discouraging fatherlessness and educating boys to maintain self control at all times, aka "toxic masculinity".

Moreover, the white-paper the op-ed author is citing [0] doesn't even have "fatherlessness" as the most correlated variable: it's poverty across the board (and by a lot).

“The stark relationship between fatherlessness, and both income inequality and crime”.

A data point: a while ago, I fell down a rabbit hole arguing with social justice people online who maintained that the notion that fatherlessness in the black community was problematic was a "myth." They justified their claim on the basis of a US government report which indicated that single black fathers spent more time with their kids as single white fathers.