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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
What mechanisms do we have, in 2016, to properly socialize young men? Especially when growing numbers of young men have no stable father in their lives? The collapse of marriage as an institution among the poor - and increasingly the middle-class - has been a social (and economic) catastrophe.
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Based on what? In the first half of the 20th century with higher mortality rates among younger adults, the percentage of children who grew up in single parent families isn't far off from what we see today. The only time period that saw markedly fewer single parent families was the '50s and '60s, and once those children came of age in the mid '60s to the 70s we saw some of the highest crime rates in history.