BBC - The competing arguments used to explain the riots : #3 "lack of fathers"

tomek77 · 2011-08-12T00:46:25+00:00

It's good to see that the mainstream media is catching on something we have been aware for years: the overwhelming majority of young drug addicts, school dropouts, and violent criminals are coming from fatherless homes. Everyone who deals with youth problems knows it, every study shows a shocking contrast between children growing in normal families (even if poor) and those in broken families, and yet it is hardly ever mentioned in the media..

From: http://www.canadiancrc.com/Fatherlessness/Fatherlessness_in_Canada.aspx

Father-deprivation is a more reliable predictor of criminal activity than race, environment or poverty:

Father-deprived children are:

72% of all teenage murderers.
60% of rapists.
70% of kids incarcerated.
twice as likely to quit school.
11 times more likely to be violent.
3 of 4 teen suicides.
80% of the adolescents in psychiatric hospitals.
90% of runaways

Children who grew up fatherless are:

Eight times more likely to go to prison.
Five times more likely to commit suicide.
20 times more likely to have behavioural problems.
20 times more likely to become rapists.
32 times more likely to become runaways.
10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances.
Nine times more likely to drop out of high school.
One-tenth as likely to get A's in school.

ThePigman · 2011-08-12T06:22:03+00:00

"Yes, there are some issues about where boys get a positive sense of masculinity from when they don't have anyone in the home to give it."

How does this explain the female rioters? It doesn't.

"But if you have a stable family set-up then these kids can still be very high-achieving."

Well, perhaps so but nobody claimed they couldn't. The problem is that without a father in the home they are far less likely to achieve. It's not impossible, but it is much less likely.

ThePigman · 2011-08-12T00:59:41+00:00

The austerity cuts haven't even started yet so they can't be the cause.

windynights · 2011-08-12T22:21:22+00:00

I don't care about excuses. The British public needs to feel the government is respecting them. Hit every rioter as hard as you can.

NiceGuysSTFU · 2011-08-12T00:58:02+00:00

Frankly I think austerity has more to do with it. Let them say what they will though...

Title	BBC - The competing arguments used to explain the riots : #3 "lack of fathers"
Author	tomek77
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Date	August 12, 2011 12:41 AM UTC (15 years ago)
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