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To the story itself; I'd suggest that it's not entirely (or perhaps even primarily) a matter of two parent families. Maybe I'm biased, being the product of a one-parent family, and me, I've hardly killed anybody. Lately.

There's a strong argument that parents are less important than we like to think. Children pick up their moral values from the world around them, particularly their peer group, and the general social values they encounter daily. A single-parented child in a socially coherent setting will develop just fine.

What we're seeing here, I suggest, is the product of socialism in its rawest form. Socialism nationalises society. It nationalises child rearing. The one certainty is that nationalisation destroys the private sector.

But morality and social behaviour are inherently private sector enterprises, that work on the level of individuals. Margaret Thatcher said "there is no such thing as society" and people didn't understand what she'd meant. She meant that there is no separate thing "society", merely the interactions of individuals. Socialists strip "society" away from people and attempt to give it to the state. But it is not a thing that can be stripped away and kept intact; it simply disappears. People are told that socialisation is no longer in their hands. Somebody else will do it. "Education" will do it. "The Law" will do it. But what happens is nobody does it.

People cease to see themselves as part of the group. Society atomises. It becomes everyone for themselves. This is not individualism (which is a good thing) nor even anarchy, it is simply chaos.

Ian,

This seems like a 'chicken or the egg' argument. Did the societal breakdown in Oakland lead to single-family homes or vice-versa? Either way, stability at home leads to more stable children, two parents or not. The fundamental issue is that parents are not teaching morality because it is 'stupid' and Oakland is suffering the consequences. Schools teach that morals are all relative, they question 'What is right or wrong,' and they seem to go well out of their way to destroy any semblance of traditional values.

I don't really have time to research it today, but I will wager that the majority of these 'super criminals' come from a single-parent household. I grew up in one myself, plus I spent years working with juvenile delinquents, and the main trend I always saw was a lack of responsibility. Fathers find it easier and easier to exit the stage because society no longer frowns on divorce or illegitimate children. While I am definitely not saying we should ostracize anyone, we need to get back to the point where divorce and illegitimacy are the exception, not the rule. It seems too many times that decisions are made according to what's good for the parents with little regard for the children involved.

To the story itself; I'd suggest that it's not entirely (or perhaps even primarily) a matter of two parent families. Maybe I'm biased, being the product of a one-parent family, and me, I've hardly killed anybody. Lately.

Actually the link between poverty and the destruction of the nuclear family in the black community has been known for decades. See this article:

http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_3_black_family.html