tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post115768796065130092..comments2024-03-01T07:43:16.529-06:00Comments on Smart City Memphis: Better Research = Better Crime FightingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-1158068300828932982006-09-12T08:38:00.000-05:002006-09-12T08:38:00.000-05:00Autoegocrat,If your father did abandon you, then h...Autoegocrat,<BR/><BR/>If your father did abandon you, then he is the exception, not the rule.<BR/><BR/>Sanford Braver conducted the largest federal study ever done to find out why fathers abandon their children. His conclusion was they were that very few married fathers abandon their children. Overwhelmingly it is mothers, not fathers, who are walking away from marriages and thus separating children from their fathers. Other studies have reached similar or more dramatic conclusions.<BR/><BR/>I can tell you that this is year is the first time in six years that I've been able to see my son. It wasn't because I didn't want to, it was because his mother didn't want me to be in his life and the court didn't care. The only thing that happen if I filed contempt was that the judge accused me of using the court system to harass her and raised my support.<BR/><BR/>So before you hit your father, ask him what happened.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-1157988174782774842006-09-11T10:22:00.000-05:002006-09-11T10:22:00.000-05:00stupid people should not breed.stupid people should not breed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-1157803842035447132006-09-09T07:10:00.000-05:002006-09-09T07:10:00.000-05:00Hey DAD, you've got a great organization there, bu...Hey DAD, you've got a great organization there, but it's no myth that fathers abandon their children. it's the reality of my daily life. I haven't seen hide nor hair of my deadbeat sperm donor in over ten years.<BR/><BR/>Of course, if I ever see the miserable bastard again, I'm as liable to knock his teeth out as look at him, so your point about violence among the fatherless is well-taken.autoegocrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03726708889208600414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-1157731166576752702006-09-08T10:59:00.000-05:002006-09-08T10:59:00.000-05:00An uncaring society produces uncaring people. For ...An uncaring society produces uncaring people. For 25 years, American society has been moving to the right, where is our conservative Utopia? Just more stratification, atomization, and decline.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-1157725510029398392006-09-08T09:25:00.000-05:002006-09-08T09:25:00.000-05:00If you really want to tackle crime, you need to st...If you really want to tackle crime, you need to stop driving fathers away from their children (via divorce, juvenile court, false domestic violence calls, a welfare system that replaces fathers with gov't). <BR/><BR/>Don't throw out the <A HREF="http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=1898820&page=2" REL="nofollow">MYTH </A>that fathers abandon their children.<BR/><BR/>A 1988 study found that the proportion of single parent households in a community predicts its rates of violent crime and burglary, but the area's poverty level does not.<BR/>Source: "Social Structure and Criminal Victimization. " Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 25, February 1988: 27-52.<BR/><BR/>In a re-analysis of data from a study of 500 delinquent and 500 non-delinquent youths originally conducted in the 1950's, it was found that the low supervision of adolescents frequently found in father-absent homes was more the cause of delinquency than poverty. Source: "Urban Poverty and the Family Context of Delinquency., A New Look at Structure and Process in a Classk Study. " Child Development 65, 1994: 523-540.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-1157714990394159682006-09-08T06:29:00.000-05:002006-09-08T06:29:00.000-05:00Excellent, excellent post. This editorial should b...Excellent, excellent post. This editorial should be in the CA and sent to Director Godwin, Sheriff Luttrell, Mike Heidingsfield, and any other individual or groups involved in crime fighting and research.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com