#1 Predictor of Whether a Child Is Incarcerated Later in Life Is?

Try to guess the answer before you read below and see if you can't figure it out. What might it be:

• Drug use?
• Pornography use?
• Abuse?
• Bad grades in school?
• Poverty?
• None of the above?

**The #1 predictor for whether a child will ultimately spend time in prison is whether the kid grew up in a single-parent home (read this as single mother, which the vast majority are).
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**Another study uncovered the following statistic - In 1996, 70% of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long sentences, were raised by single mothers. Source.  


**“After controlling for single motherhood, the difference between black and white crime rates disappeared.”
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In other words, the higher crime-rate problems in minority communities can be directly linked to the crisis in single motherhood.


MORE STATS:

• Girls raised without fathers in the home are more sexually promiscuous, and more likely to end up divorced.
• 70% of teen births occur to girls in single mother homes.
• 86% of American teen births are out of wedlock.
• America has more than twice as many teenage births as other developed nations.
• 70% of drop-outs, and 70% of teen suicides come from single mother homes.

WHERE ARE THE DADS? 


Heavenly Father help fathers here on earth!