I don't know how many people have seen it, or if it is available to our denizens in the UK. But it's basically a cable series on the A&E network that goes to different "Scared Straight" programs at prisons and jailhouses around the United States. It follows "troubled teens" as they are exposed to the realities of jail and prison. The premise is the same each show; the teens go in with all hard-ass attitudes, and by about an hour into the SS program, they are usually bawling tears as they are lit up by COs and actual inmates. The inmates will scream, yell, steal their shoes, the kids will be locked in jail cells, etc. The corrections officers later try to talk sense into them, and make them realize that being a rebellious fucktwit will land them nowhere except being a future prison bitch. Sometimes the kids are receptive, sometimes not.

Anyways, at the beginning of the show, they interview the parents of these troubled teens, as they describe how disrespectful their kids are, how they engage in violent and criminal activity at disturbingly young ages, and how nothing they try works, and that the Scared Straight program is the last hope for their troubled children.

However, one thing I've noticed since watching this program through my shiny pair of Red Lensed Glasses:

Every single one of these kids, and I mean every one, is the child of a single mother.

Without fail. So this leads me to ask: why are family courts routinely, and as a matter of policy, placing young children into the care of other children trapped in adult bodies? I mean, having a bastard child out of wedlock is irresponsible in itself. As /u/dr_warlock observes in another thread, it's not that women are incapable of responsibility, but they are very averse to accepting any. And when women eschew responsibility for their own actions, is it any surprise that they cannot or will not impart responsibility onto the actions of their children?

What we have today is an army of single mothers (remember, 50% of kids today are born to single mothers, and in the black community, it's over 75%), unleashing the next generations of dangerous criminals onto society. And as Beyond Scared Straight shows us, these single-mothered kids get started in their criminal exploits at a very young age; some are as young as 11 or 12. And statistics show that when children wind up in the Juvenile Detention system, their chance of adult recidivism goes literally through the roof.

So my question is, why are we doing these children, and society at large, a grave disservice by leaving them in the care of patently irresponsible women?

What needs to change? What policies need to change so that we can start raising children into productive adults? Because the status quo of de facto maternal custody is clearly not working.

I'm sure a great number of you were raised by single mothers, which is how you ended up emasculated blue pill woman worshippers in the first place, so some of you may be able to offer some personal examples.

  • Was your father involved in your life at all?
  • Were any of you rebellious little fucktarts growing up?
  • Were you orbiting doormats for the girls you wanted because your mother told you that "girls are sugar and spice and blah fuck blah"?
  • For those of you young parents with young boys now, what are you going to do to ensure they won't have to search out masculine behavior on the internet?

Discuss.