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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The rational approach is to look at why indigenous youths are over nine times more likely to commit crimes than their representation in the Canadian population. Given what we know about crime, it's likely due to being raised in single-parent households, surrounded by substance abuse, with no examples of deferred gratification leading to a better life.
But if being raised in single-parent homes, surrounded by substance abuse, and with no clear incentive to defer gratification and get an education are bad things for Native youth, they're also bad for non-Natives.
So why try to fix things at the age of 23 or 30, when it's too late? And why not deal with the problem by addressing single-parent households, family environments with substance abuse, and incentives to defer gratification for all youth?
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I'm pretty sure that solving single parent households, substance abuse, etc, requires fixing the 18-35 year old age group in particular. They are after all, the group that tends to be parents of young children who are most affected by this bad behavior. This is one of the cases where you can't fix one problem without fixing the other; which makes it extraordinarily difficult to solve.