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Intact families are key to lower crime: Study
by Breccan F. Thies, Investigative ReporterDecember 13, 2023 03:09 PM
Neighborhoods are safer when two-parent households are predominant, according to a report from the Institute for Family Studies.
While the primary theories on the causes of crime include "social structural factors" such as unemployment and poverty or the prevalence of law enforcement, the new study found the stability of "core social institutions" such as family, churches, and schools to be determinative in the crime rates of communities.
“This new research indicates that our city streets are safer when families are more stable,” W. Bradford Wilcox, study co-author, IFS Future of Freedom fellow, and University of Virginia sociology professor, said. “Given this, policymakers should be aiming to strengthen families by taking steps — like teaching the ‘success sequence’ and eliminating marriage penalties in our means-tested programs — that shore up the cultural and economic foundations of family life.”
The study looked at crime, violent crime, and homicide data from more than 600 cities and found that “family structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of ... urban violence across cities in the United States."
National violent crime rates are 118% higher, and homicide rates are 255% higher in cities with prominent levels of single-parent households, which the study notes remains the case when controlling for factors such as race, education, and poverty.
More here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/intact-families-are-key-to-lower-crime-study
Of course, we've always known that women for the most part cannot raise, control, or discipline male children. There are exceptions, but they are exceptions.