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

A far more substantive reason for the prevalence of crime among adolescence and young adults can be attributed to fatherlessness (1)(2)(3)(4). (1) https://fathers.com/the-consequences-of-fatherlessness/\ https://fathers.com/the-consequences-of-fatherlessness/\ (2) https://www.fatherhood.org/father-absence-statistic https://www.fatherhood.org/father-absence-statistic (3) https://ifstudies.org/blog/life-without-father-less-college-less-work-and-more-prison-for-young-men-growing-up-without-their-biological-father https://ifstudies.org/blog/life-without-father-less-college-... (4) https://medium.com/@apdonovan1990/10-insane-stats-that-show-the-damage-of-fatherlessness-71301cb6b0a0 https://medium.com/@apdonovan1990/10-insane-stats-that-show-...

unshavedyak 3y ago
Not sure how to ask this without it sounding combative, because i don't intend that.. but, does that matter? Ie there's a lot of causes in adult behavior that could be tied or contributed to by their childhood, ie another adults behavior and decisions. I struggle to understand the action items with that information, though. I desire more mental health funding and etc, so i'm not criticizing any attempt to do something. Rather i struggle to imagine what the state's solution would be to a lack of fathers.
- drBonkers 3y ago
  > i struggle to imagine what the state's solution would be to a lack of fathers. Manipulate the incentive structure so that it does not financially incentivize single parents. "Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome."
  - crent 3y ago
    I'm legitimately unsure here but how are single parents incentivized financially? That's an environment that I am wholly unfamiliar with so I really have no context.
    - toomuchtodo 3y ago
      They are saying financial incentives should be to force people together vs support single parents. The unsaid part is to encourage, through policy, marriage and traditional family structures by way of less access to secular social safety programs. The problem is that this leads to people being forced to stay in abusive or unhealthy relationships because of someone else's ideology. If you work backwards further, you'll find you're unable to fix dysfunctional relationships through economic policy. ~40% of annual pregnancies in the US are unintended, so perhaps more accessible family planning is what is needed, so that people who don't want to be parents don't become parents. https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-united-states https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-u... Information to consume to better understand this mental model: https://ifstudies.org/blog/category/single-parents https://ifstudies.org/blog/category/single-parents "The world is never unhappy because of children who have not yet been born; it is grief stricken by children who have been placed on the planet without anyone to love them adequately. We can cope with fewer children, we can't cope with yet more parents insufficiently dedicated to the tasks of love." -- Unknown
      - crent 3y ago
        Ah okay, I understand the perspective now. Thanks for the extra information.
      - mcpackieh 3y ago
        Given the GP's statistic, I think you could argue that raising a child fatherless is itself unhealthy and abusive. How we weigh one harm against the other is a sticky mess, but we could probably start by curbing no-fault divorces, at least when kids are involved. Let people get divorces in cases of abuse, but "we got bored of each other" divorces harm kids and the rest of society pays the price.
        toomuchtodo 3y ago
        Agree to disagree. You only get one life, and then you die. Having children shouldn't be an emotional death sentence if your marriage sucks (50% of first marriages end in divorce, 60%+ for second marriages). You can coparent just fine divorced if both parents are involved, financially stable, and emotionally well adjusted. You can even have children without being married. The economic part is the primary problem (having kids one can't afford). Forcing people economically (using policy) into longterm unhappiness will not lead to the desired outcome. Tangentially, there are ~400k children in foster care in the US at any moment in time, roughly 1/4 of which are adoptable. No one adopts them, and then they age out into adulthood. What happens next as adults, the statistics are grim (roughly 25 percent become homeless). So, these various datasets leads me to the conclusion that we have a long way to go to help people who don't want kids to not have them (while still robustly supporting parents who very much want to parent). This, I believe, will lead to better outcomes overall. I also argue society wants healthy productive citizens who will be taxpayers and generate productivity, but doesn't give a damn about helping parents or struggling children (you would think advocates of universal school lunches were asking for someone's head on a platter, for example), so society deserves what it gets in that regard until it's ready to invest. Talk is cheap.
  - mcny 3y ago
    > Manipulate the incentive structure so that it does not financially incentivize single parents. I hope not. Everybody wants a "more simplified tax code" except they all want their own credit/deduction/exemption/whatever. This is how we end up with nonsense like the masters exemption. > This IRS exemption allows homeowners to exclude up to two weeks of rental income from their taxable income.
  - za3faran 3y ago
    There's only so much a secular system can do.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
  United States policy has contributed immensely to a lack of fathers. A father begins to lose his rights at the moment of fertilization. They are last in line for custody or visitation after a divorce (including the no-fault ones), but they're the first ones on the hook for child support. If there's welfare support for Women-Infants-Children, why should we keep Dad around? A dearth of legal rights has acted synergistically with cultural changes to alienate children from their fathers, and so the children seek out authority figures and acceptance in gangs, or sports, or social media. This is what it looks like when you're smashing the patriarchy and cancelling the patriarchs.
  - plagiarist 3y ago
    I am skeptical, can you link to some statistics for fathers who wanted custody or visitation and were not granted that? Excluding obvious reasons like conviction for a violent crime or something.
drpgq 3y ago
Adding immobilizers to Kias and Hyundais is probably easier than solving fatherlessness.
- riku_iki 3y ago
  Steeling kias is not only crime people commit.
- tester756 3y ago
  But solving fatherlessness solves a lot of other problems besides stealing Kias and Hyundais too.
plagiarist 3y ago
How do these sources control for single parents being more likely to be mothers and single parents being more likely to be below the poverty line?

unshavedyak 3y ago

Not sure how to ask this without it sounding combative, because i don't intend that.. but, does that matter? Ie there's a lot of causes in adult behavior that could be tied or contributed to by their childhood, ie another adults behavior and decisions. I struggle to understand the action items with that information, though. I desire more mental health funding and etc, so i'm not criticizing any attempt to do something. Rather i struggle to imagine what the state's solution would be to a lack of fathers.

drBonkers 3y ago
> i struggle to imagine what the state's solution would be to a lack of fathers. Manipulate the incentive structure so that it does not financially incentivize single parents. "Show me the incentive, I'll show you the outcome."
- crent 3y ago
  I'm legitimately unsure here but how are single parents incentivized financially? That's an environment that I am wholly unfamiliar with so I really have no context.
  - toomuchtodo 3y ago
    They are saying financial incentives should be to force people together vs support single parents. The unsaid part is to encourage, through policy, marriage and traditional family structures by way of less access to secular social safety programs. The problem is that this leads to people being forced to stay in abusive or unhealthy relationships because of someone else's ideology. If you work backwards further, you'll find you're unable to fix dysfunctional relationships through economic policy. ~40% of annual pregnancies in the US are unintended, so perhaps more accessible family planning is what is needed, so that people who don't want to be parents don't become parents. https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-united-states https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-u... Information to consume to better understand this mental model: https://ifstudies.org/blog/category/single-parents https://ifstudies.org/blog/category/single-parents "The world is never unhappy because of children who have not yet been born; it is grief stricken by children who have been placed on the planet without anyone to love them adequately. We can cope with fewer children, we can't cope with yet more parents insufficiently dedicated to the tasks of love." -- Unknown
    - crent 3y ago
      Ah okay, I understand the perspective now. Thanks for the extra information.
    - mcpackieh 3y ago
      Given the GP's statistic, I think you could argue that raising a child fatherless is itself unhealthy and abusive. How we weigh one harm against the other is a sticky mess, but we could probably start by curbing no-fault divorces, at least when kids are involved. Let people get divorces in cases of abuse, but "we got bored of each other" divorces harm kids and the rest of society pays the price.
      - toomuchtodo 3y ago
        Agree to disagree. You only get one life, and then you die. Having children shouldn't be an emotional death sentence if your marriage sucks (50% of first marriages end in divorce, 60%+ for second marriages). You can coparent just fine divorced if both parents are involved, financially stable, and emotionally well adjusted. You can even have children without being married. The economic part is the primary problem (having kids one can't afford). Forcing people economically (using policy) into longterm unhappiness will not lead to the desired outcome. Tangentially, there are ~400k children in foster care in the US at any moment in time, roughly 1/4 of which are adoptable. No one adopts them, and then they age out into adulthood. What happens next as adults, the statistics are grim (roughly 25 percent become homeless). So, these various datasets leads me to the conclusion that we have a long way to go to help people who don't want kids to not have them (while still robustly supporting parents who very much want to parent). This, I believe, will lead to better outcomes overall. I also argue society wants healthy productive citizens who will be taxpayers and generate productivity, but doesn't give a damn about helping parents or struggling children (you would think advocates of universal school lunches were asking for someone's head on a platter, for example), so society deserves what it gets in that regard until it's ready to invest. Talk is cheap.
- mcny 3y ago
  > Manipulate the incentive structure so that it does not financially incentivize single parents. I hope not. Everybody wants a "more simplified tax code" except they all want their own credit/deduction/exemption/whatever. This is how we end up with nonsense like the masters exemption. > This IRS exemption allows homeowners to exclude up to two weeks of rental income from their taxable income.
- za3faran 3y ago
  There's only so much a secular system can do.
NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
United States policy has contributed immensely to a lack of fathers. A father begins to lose his rights at the moment of fertilization. They are last in line for custody or visitation after a divorce (including the no-fault ones), but they're the first ones on the hook for child support. If there's welfare support for Women-Infants-Children, why should we keep Dad around? A dearth of legal rights has acted synergistically with cultural changes to alienate children from their fathers, and so the children seek out authority figures and acceptance in gangs, or sports, or social media. This is what it looks like when you're smashing the patriarchy and cancelling the patriarchs.
- plagiarist 3y ago
  I am skeptical, can you link to some statistics for fathers who wanted custody or visitation and were not granted that? Excluding obvious reasons like conviction for a violent crime or something.

drpgq 3y ago

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

riku_iki 3y ago
Steeling kias is not only crime people commit.
tester756 3y ago
But solving fatherlessness solves a lot of other problems besides stealing Kias and Hyundais too.

plagiarist 3y ago

How do these sources control for single parents being more likely to be mothers and single parents being more likely to be below the poverty line?