[Moonman62]

"This desperate poverty and squalor has served as the breeding ground for serious, often lethal crime from young men who feel they have nothing to lose, in a society which has given them nothing. And it is precisely this sense of desperation which makes these neighborhoods so dangerous for those outsiders unfortunate or foolish enough to enter them.

I bet the killer's never met his father. I wonder how come the media never makes that connection.

[BenLurkin]

There is no “desperate poverty” in American cities.

[Leisler]

A male father is two parts. The male sexual sperm part, and then the decades, sometime fifty year, shepherding guiding of the male through economic, spiritual, physical, moral and ethical travels. A creature defined as male, who cast away his children, isn’t a father. A ‘father’, no matter what his social, credentialed, or economic station who shepards his son, is a noble, heroic creature.

I resent sperm depositors being titled with the word ‘father’.

[denydenydeny]

The chief determinant in violent crime, as you allude, is not poverty but fatherlessness.