1. Divorce Effects Society
Increased youth crime rate is caused largely by absent fathers as a result of divorce made too easy. ... National Longitudinal Survey of Youth reveals that 27% of girls from divorced families become mothers versus 11% of girls from traditional families. ... Retired Edmonton Police Service Superintendent Chris Braiden notes that in the thirty-year period in which violent youth crime rose by 300% in the U.S., the number of single parent families rose by 300% and the divorce rate doubled, the same as it did in Canada (McGovern 1). ... Society should recognize the link divorce has to youth crime...
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