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August 31, 2003
Less Dads, More Crime
According to a new Justice Department study, the United
States has the highest incarceration rate in the world.
More than 5.6 million Americans are in prison or have
served time there--one out of every 37 American adults.
Studies show that crime is correlated with
fatherlessness more than with any other social factor,
including income and race. In
Jennifer Roback Morse's new article "Parents
or Prisons" (Policy Review, August &September
2003), she details the link between fatherlessness and
crime and sounds the alarm over the damage to society
caused by single parent families.
Morse, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and
the author of
Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't
Work (Spence Publishing, 2001), appeared on
His Side with Glenn
Sacks on KRLA
870 AM in Los Angeles on Sunday, August 31. To
listen to the archived version of the show, go to
His Side.
Glenn and Jennifer discussed the special contributions
which fathers make and how three decades of vilification
has made some men afraid to be the fathers their
children need them to be. Jennifer noted that society
has "turned fathers into assistant moms" and Glenn said
"we've made a lot of fathers into wimps--not only have
many fathers been driven out of their kids lives by the
family courts, not only do we have many women deciding
to have kids on their own, but the fathers who are
in the home have become a lot weaker because we've made
the idea of a strong father into a bad thing."
Other topics included: Morse's explanation of the
destructive and intractable attachment disorders which
parentless children face; the way "no fault divorce" has
really become "unilateral divorce"; and the costs which
unilateral divorce impose on children, the involuntarily
divorced parent, and society as a whole.
To purchase Jennifer's book
Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't
Work, call toll free at 1-888-773-6782 or click
here.
To learn more about how fatherlessness leads to crime
and other social pathologies, see Morse's "Parents
or Prisons" as well as the National Fatherhood
Initiative's
Father Facts. To learn more about the ways in which
traditional fathers and fatherhood have been vilified
and their virtues ignored, see Glenn's columns "Hate
My Father? No Ma'am!" (World Net Daily,
4/8/02) and "Dr.
Helen Caldicott Spits on My Grandfather" (Cybercast
News Service, 3/28/03). To learn more about the ways
decent fathers are being driven out of their children's
lives, see Glenn's columns "Many
Divorced Dads Struggle to Remain in Their Children's
Lives" (Long Beach Times, 6/5/03) and "Can
Abolishing Sole Custody Curb Divorce?" (New York
Sun, 10/2/02) (co-authored by
Dianna Thompson,
Executive Director of the
American Coalition for Fathers and Children).
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