[wintertime]

I have an idea!

Let’s encourage ***fatherhood**. The old fashioned kind.

How about encouraging solidly grounded families with a mother and a **FATHER **. The old fashioned kind where the father is actually the true DNA father of the kids in the family.

Do that and the murder and crime rate will go down.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> Do that and the murder and crime rate will go down.

I saw some interesting statistical work here in NZ on that very subject — I will need to dig it out — it supports that notion quite convincingly.

The guts of it was this: our current trends in NZ crime more-or-less correlates to the “coming of age” of kids born into single-parent families where mum is on the “Domestic Purposes Benefit” umpteen years ago.

There is correlation, and the study was trying to prove causation. Commonsense says “of course there’s causation” but statisticians don’t like commonsense: they like proof with numbers.

IMO the absence of good father figures in families is a lead contributor to crime and all sorts of society’s ills. We have sown to the wind on that issue, and we are about to reap the whirlwind. If we think things are bad now, they will only get worse.

[peeps36]

The black community lost its way when two parent households were replaced by welfare mothers. They will never prosper unless they bring the fathers back into the family and put education above their mindless materialism.