Why do we associate fatherlessness with crime and dysfunction?

[Prynce]

When a ton of people who are dysfunctional and/or in a life crime have a relationship with their fathers

I've met teenage thots with a dad present in the home and I've met drug dealing gang members with dad's at home.

I think the issues in certain communities are bigger than a perceived lack of masculinity. A lot of brehs tend to place the blame on single parenthood when I've seen the same issues in homes with both parent's

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

I don’t think that’s the only symptom people associate with crime and dysfunction...

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Because statistically speaking offspring(s) of single mothers tend to commit more crimes than ones who grew up in a two parent home.
Effects of Fatherless Families on Crime Rates [Marripedia]

Outside of the data it’s just basic knowledge if you put it together.

Single parents = Less Income
Less income = living in more poverty areas
Poverty = Surrounding crime
Surrounding crime= more likely you’ll commit crimes.

 

[Dr. Acula]

This is the second thread you made on asking what is wrong with a deadbeat. Something you need to get off your chest?

Anyways, to answer your question, exceptions not the rule. Statistically, dysfunction is likely to occur in broken single parent homes than not. Your individual anecdotes (this thot here, this thug here, etc) does not discount the overall trend.

You improve your chances of success with a stable two parent home

 

[Prynce]

I don’t think that’s the only symptom people associate with crime and dysfunction...

True, but in the clack community every time we have a dialogue about what's wrong with out condition fatherlessness pops up as on one of the main factors but anybody who grew up around black people know that isn't the case

 

[Ghostface Trillah]

Coli nikkas always make threads like this like there isn't surveys and endless information from the mouths of prisoners with the majority all having fatherlessness as a common denominator.

It's called being a statistic for a reason.

 

[Prynce]

Because statistically speaking offspring(s) of single parents tend to commit more crimes than ones who grew up in a two parent home.

Outside of the data it’s just basic knowledge if you put it together.

Single parents = Less Income
Less income = living in more poverty areas
Poverty = Surrounding crime
Surrounding crime= more likely you’ll commit crimes.

I would wager that most black people have a relationship with their father.

Again this is anecdotal and I don't have research to back it up but it seems most people in our community also have both parents contributing to them also.
Yet I still see men and women with both parents doing the things people say come from single home.

On top of that I would wager that most single parent homes are above the poverty line

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

True, but in the clack community every time we have a dialogue about what's wrong with out condition fatherlessness pops up as on one of the main factors but anybody who grew up around black people know that isn't the case

The data disagrees with you.

 

[Prynce]

Coli nikkas always make threads like this like there isn't surveys and endless information from the mouths of prisoners with the majority all having fatherlessness as a common denominator.

It's called being a statistic for a reason.

I can find just as many nikkas in prison with dads than nikkas without them too

You can look at LA for example and see 3 generations of men all in the same gang

It has to be more than not having a father than leads people down a certain path

 

[Prynce]

The data disagrees with you.

The funny thing about data is that its open for interpretation and can be used to prove a lot of things

but I don't have data to back up my claims but again from my personal experience most black people have a relationship with both parents

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Coli nikkas always make threads like this like there isn't surveys and endless information from the mouths of prisoners with the majority all having fatherlessness as a common denominator.

It's called being a statistic for a reason.

They obviously have never cared for, or worked with a large group of black boys and teens, and simply asked them: "How many of you have grown up living with your fathers?"

I've been in a room of 50 young brehs when only 3 of them would raise their hands. Much pain in the room.

 

[Prynce]

This is the second thread you made on asking what is wrong with a deadbeat. Something you need to get off your chest?

Anyways, to answer your question, exceptions not the rule. Statistically, dysfunction is likely to occur in broken single parent homes than not. Your individual anecdotes (this thot here, this thug here, etc) does not discount the overall trend.

You improve your chances of success with a stable two parent home

I have nothing to get off my chest. I dont even have kids lmao

Im not arguing that 2 parent homes arent better. What Im saying is why do we associate single parents with criminal children when tons of people who commit crime in our community have a relationship with both parent.

The dysfunction in black homes is not solely because of single parenthood

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

Even a mega-white liberal publication like The Atlantic can't ignore the obvious:

"It's difficult to get up-to-date data since the Bureau of Justice doesn't reliably track the family background of inmates. (They also put intact and step families in the same "two parent" category, though at least one study has found the later to be predictive of juvenile incarceration.) The 1987 "Survey of Youth in Custody" found that 70% did not grow up with both parents. Another 1994 study of Wisconsin juveniles was even more stark: only 13% grew up with their married parents. Here's the conclusion of Cynthia Harper and Sara McLanahan, the doyenne of researchers about single parenthood: "[C]ontrolling for income and all other factors, youths in father-absent families (mother only, mother-stepfather, and relatives/other) still had significantly higher odds of incarceration than those from mother-father families.""

The Real, Complex Connection Between Single-Parent Families and Crime

 

[Prynce]

They obviously have never cared for, or worked with a large group of black boys and teens, and simply asked them: "How many of you have grown up living with your fathers?"

I've been in a room of 50 young brehs when only 3 of them would raise their hands. Much pain in the room.

not the point of my thread

 

[Wear My Dawg's Hat]

not the point of my thread

For clarity, what is your point?