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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.)

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