Lack of parenting can take a bow to this stupidity.
Public education can't be blamed for poor parenting!
Agreed. Public schools are bad in many ways, but parenting still rules. For one thing every state allows home schooling or to put the child in a charter or private school.
The lion’s share of the blame goes to the absentee father, from what I’ve seen personally. And I don’t buy this ‘we weren’t happy together so I left’, or similar rationalizations. Once you have kids, your own ‘happiness’ is of secondary importance.
The female shoulders some of the blame to be sure, but if the males would ‘man up’ we would not have many of the problems we do today - both in and out of the cities.