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What are your thought on this quote about the importance of fatherhood?
…The sociologist David Blankenhorn, in “Fatherless America” (1995), wrote, "Despite the difficulty of proving causation in the social sciences, the weight of evidence increasingly supports the conclusion that fatherlessness is a primary generator of violence among young men." William Galston, a former domestic-policy adviser in the Clinton Administration who is now at the University of Maryland, and his colleague Elaine Kamarck, now at Harvard, concur. Commenting on the relationship between crime and one-parent families, they wrote in a 1990 institute report, "The relationship is so strong that controlling for family configuration erases the relationship between race and crime and between low income and crime. This conclusion shows up time and again in the literature."…"
…The boys who are most at risk for juvenile delinquency and violence are boys who are physically separated from their fathers. The U.S. Bureau of the Census reports that in 1960 children living with their mother but not their father numbered 5.1 million; by 1996 the number was more than 16 million. As the phenomenon of fatherlessness has increased, so has violence. As far back as 1965 Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan called attention to the social dangers of raising boys without benefit of a paternal presence. He wrote in a 1965 study for the Labor Department, "A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any rational expectations about the future—that community asks for and gets chaos."…
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- Sheila shesheLv 59 years agoFavorite Answer
Whilst it certainly is important for a child to have a father. it does not mean they are going to be criminals without one.I have brought 2 children up by myself. My daughter is highly educated and in a high paying job.My son has just started university.Not any concerns with either of them . They are both useful members of the community,as am I.I feel that I should add that the father was not interested,even though he was given contact on a regular basis. He preferred life with his new childless girlfriend.
- Anonymous9 years ago
sociologist David Blankenhorn is an idiot. It's not that fatherless cause violence in young men, but Violence men (bad boys) breed most because women think those type of low lifers are "alpha men", thus the kids of violence men are genetically inherited low IQ & violence trait and the vicious cycle continue.
Sheess,most women, when given choices choose the worst among men.
- ?Lv 79 years ago
I completely agree. There have been many studies done (biased and non) showing the importance of a father to a child.
- 9 years ago
Completely agree. Men, stop leaving! Women, let your kids see their father even if you can't stand him! It's not about you.
