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Re:We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college by rayiner on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:26PM (#25826210)
The homicide rate in Bangladesh is half of what it is in the US, and not far off from wealthy countries with gun control, like Canada or Belgium. Yes, there are a lot of bad things that happen in Bangladesh--it's a very poor country, with limited law and order, political unrest, and significant problems with organized crime and gangs. One wonders what things would be like if--on top of all of that--more than a quarter of kids were growing up fatherless like in the US.
Re:We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college by watwut on Monday January 18, 2021 @03:48PM (#25826455)
The impact of single parenthood is much lower then you assume.

American crime rates went down considerably. So did juvenile violence rates, drug taking and alcoholism. And teenage pregnancies went down too. All the while divorces went up. Stop demonizing kids of single parents and for that matter Americans.

Also, American domestic violence rates went down. While the reporting of it went up as women can get actual help nowdays, so there is a point in doing it. These would not even count as crimes in many of "harmonious" families with taboo around divorce.

Also, in Americans crime statistics, murders are higher relative to other crimes, because of prevalence of guns. America is not perfect, but it's youth is way better then you make them be due to your strong bias against kids who had divorced parents.

Re:We are sending more foster kids to prison than to college by rayiner on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:46PM (#25827053)
I'm not "demonizing" anyone. But it's important to look at social changes not only with an eye to how they affect individuals, but how they affect everyone. We can't just sympathize with the kids of single parents, but must find the sympathy and kindness to ask whether there are more such kids than there should be and whether there is anything we can do about that.

The U.S. leads the world in the percentage of children raised in single parent families: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/12/12/u-s-childre.... Over 30% of kids don't live with both parents. There are a raft of statistically established negative consequences arising from the absence of both parents, ranging from trouble at school to criminal conduct, to obesity and depression: https://www.mnpsych.org/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_dailyplanet....

(As to “bias against Americans.” On the issues of marriage and family, a lot of the things that are “normal” in America are deemed at best highly regrettable where I’m from. Now I’m as much of a flag waver as the next immigrant. But in this particular area I’m not convinced that Americans are on the right track.)