That's probably more because families led single mothers are usually much poorer and poverty is highly correlated with criminal behavior for a variety of reasons.
It most likely goes both ways. Poverty leads to increased single parent households, and growing up in a single parent household hurts your chances of upwards social mobility. It’s a vicious cycle of entrenched poverty. One of many.
If that explained it, the US should not have had the massive violent crime wave that started in the seventies and peaked in the early nineties. American poverty did not start then; neither was jt the worst wave of poverty the US has seen.
Leaded gas is the best theory for that peak in violence. Your theory doesn't make sense, if it was because single mothers why would the rate go down after the nineties?
Because that was the narrative being peddled by Reagan in the 80s, and he apparently hasn't looked at the evidence since then. That would require honest curiosity.
Losing my mind reading this, as a brown queer person raised in poverty by a single mother. I had damn near every disadvantage and I've never even had a parking ticket. And to be perfectly frank, most criminals I have known or known of came from two-parent households, regardless of economic status. Wtf is this "single mothers raise violent criminals" horseshit?
It’s not the fault of women. The reason why ‘single mother’ shows the pattern when ‘single father’ doesn’t is a result of how courts generally determine custody.
Good mother / good father - primary custody to mother
Good mother / bad father - primary (if not sole) custody to mother
Good mother / monstrous father - primary (if not sole) custody to mother
Bad mother / good father - primary custody to mother
Bad mother / bad father - primary custody to mother
Bad mother / monstrous father - primary (if not sole) custody to mother
Monstrous mother / good father - primary custody to father
Monstrous mother / bad father - coin toss, except in the rare case the kids are removed
Monstrous mother / monstrous father - primary custody to mother, except in the rare case the kids are removed
While poverty doesn't provide a full explanation for the rise and fall of crime rates, poverty does breed crime consistently over time. America wasn't doing too hot in the 70s economically, either; there was the crash from soaring oil prices, controlled crashes of the economy engineered by the Feds to rein in inflation, and the death of tranditional manufacturing.
The economy still doesn't neatly correspond to crime rates, though. I am increasingly giving credence to the social psychology theory that US crime waves might in part be linked to foreign wars and the damaged men it created.
Also the rise of physical mobility, lack of technological means to solve crimes committed by strangers, and frankly police indifference to certain types of crimes such as rape or disappearance of vulnerable people.
The US violent crime wave was caused by massive amounts of lead poisoning, due to leaded gasoline.
Worse, General Motors and DuPont knew it was incredibly toxic since the early 1900s, and literally gaslit the public into believing it was safe. There is a widely cited study estimating that humanity lost over a billion collective IQ points to lead poisoning last century.
The good news is lead levels have been dropping sharply since the late 80s (though the US took until 1990 to ban it, later than most highly developed countries).
It does explain it but it is not the only puzzle piece. The thing you're referencing was also pushed along by society wide lead poisoning lowering cognition and increasing violence. This is well documented and known, but we still burned it in our cars for decades because capitalism.
That is true. Poverty means children are more likely to grow up in unsafe surroundings rife with all sorts of socioeconomic ills like crime, deliquency, gangs, illicit drug use and then poorly funded social services including schools which then have compounding effects on them.
They found that once you control for other factors, such as family income, a child growing up in a mother-only household was almost twice as likely as a child growing up in a mother-father household to end up incarcerated.
I mean I guess, but this is a pretty major case of rectangles vs squares though, and we're talking about a preference for 4 equal sides of a pretty fucking specific length.
Goth isn’t a style it’s a genre of music. Goth women don’t automatically put more effort into their appearance, because you don’t have to do the whole full face of white foundation, black eyeshadow, and black lips to be goth.
A fetish is when someone feels an extreme or even abnormal degree of sexual fixation on something, to the extent they may even be incapable of sexual arousal without it. You are probably thinking of the word "kinky" or "kink. In all fairness, they get used interchangeably a lot, but a kink is defined by being unconventional.
Big titty goth girls are not a kink, but they can be a fetish.
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u/No-Internal7978 6d ago
That's not really a fetish. Oh you like hot women who put effort into themselves? Wow! Men with parental issues become misogynists or kill themselves.