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Having two parents greatly reduces the change of a young adult committing a crime.
by tick_tock_tick 6y ago
Having two parents greatly reduces the change of a young adult committing a crime.
- taneq 6y agoEven when controlled for income? I'd imagine single parent households are strongly correlated with lower socioeconomic status, as is antisocial behaviour.
- wow_no 6y agoOf course not, this is classic white supremacy and heteronormativity
- thaumasiotes 6y agoIf we break out children who lost a parent to catastrophe vs children who lost a parent to that parent's decision to leave, do they have the same crime rates? "Having two parents" isn't what's generating the effect.
- avs733 6y agoAnd children who lost a parent to the criminal justice system...which is highly predictive of coming from an over policed community where the child will be targeted by law enforcement and the judicial system.
- 55555 6y agoVery interesting. Have you seen stats showing that this is true? Do you care to speculate on the real causality?
- tathougies 6y agoBroken families and single parents are two separate issues. There are data showing children of single mothers by spousal death do better on lots of metrics. This is likely because the remaining parent arent antagonistic towards the deceased. No matter how you slice or dice it antagonism is necessary in a divorce.
- avs733 6y agoNo, having two parents Living at home reduces the probability that you will be Arrested for a crime. You are implying causality, when much of that correlation is because single parent homes are affected by the same policies of over policing of vulnerable communities twice. Once with a parent and once with a child.
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