Critical father theory – The Spectator World
America s crime problem is a father problem. This is one of our country s deepest and most denied family secrets. Everybody knows it, and everybody has known it for a very long time. Never mind anecdotes. Social science has confirmed as much at least since the fabled Moynihan Report of 1965, whose ignominious fate proves the rule that a document will be publicly reviled in exact proportion to the truths it tells. As the Minnesota Psychological Association lately summarized just a bit of the massive research on fatherless homes and crime: Family structure and the lack of paternal involvement are predictive of juvenile delinquency. The more opportunities a child has to interact with his or her biological father, the less likely he or she is to commit a crime or have contact with the juvenile justice system&Youths who never had a father living with them have the highest incarceration rates & while youths in father-only households display no difference in the rate of incarceration from that of children coming from two-parent households.
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