Fatherless households are the root cause of Chicago’s violence – Da Tech Guy Blog

Fatherless households are the root cause of Chicago’s violence – Da Tech Guy Blog
"Last weekend was particularly violent in Chicago, 52 people were shot–ten fatally. 
So far this weekend 30 people have been shot–with a rash of 22 people were wounded during the weekend’s first 12 hours.
Why? 
Blame usually goes to “guns from Indiana,” poverty, lack of economic opportunity, and police hamstrung by the city’s ACLU consent decree that has led to a dramatic decline in stop-and-frisks.
...And way back in 1995, Patrick Fagan wrote for the Heritage Foundation:

• Over the past thirty years, the rise in violent crime parallels the rise in families abandoned by fathers.
• High-crime neighborhoods are characterized by high concentrations of families abandoned by fathers.
• State-by-state analysis by Heritage scholars indicates that a 10 percent increase in the percentage of children living in single-parent homes leads typically to a 17 percent increase in juvenile crime.
• The rate of violent teenage crime corresponds with the number of families abandoned by fathers.
• The type of aggression and hostility demonstrated by a future criminal often is foreshadowed in unusual aggressiveness as early as age five or six.
• The future criminal tends to be an individual rejected by other children as early as the first grade who goes on to form his own group of friends, often the future delinquent gang.

Babies born in 1995 are now having their own children..."
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