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Nearly every argument about the quality of education reduces to the same result - parenting.

Ann Colter had the balls to actually call it - if you re-examine the demographics of any prison population, not by race, but by PARENTAL ARRANGEMENT, remove the single-parent arrangements, and look at JUST two-parent felons, then the number of blacks and whites in prison are EQUAL.

Going back to the single-parent raised felons, what is the racial breakdown? Roughly 80-20% black to white. Number of blacks overall raised in single parent situations is far higher than any other racial group.

Do we have a race problem with respect to criminality? Not if you consider the data. The problem is PARENTING, and the fact that overall black families are a mess. Bill Cosby and Tyler Perry both subscribe to this viewpoint as well.

If either party EVER got on a podium and said, “Education is not fixable. We can throw all the money in the world at it, and the result won’t change until we get the number of single parent families down below 10%. For every percentage point decrease in single parent families, I promise a 4 percent increase in test scores”, I’d vote for them - either party.

Every single societal blight reduces to the state of modern parenting. Every one.

You want a better society? Tax the stuffing out of divorce. You want a divorce? Excellent. Got kids? OK, we will garnish both parents wages to the tune of 30%, since that won’t begin to cover the cost of cleaning up after your offspring once they begin realizing what screw-ups their parents are.

Family law is all wrong. Child support payments should be made to local school districts and police districts.

I GUARANTEE you that if no-fault and quickie divorce were eliminated in the US, crime would go down, and test scores would go up without spending a DIME.

Divorce is only one aspect — my impression is that single motherhood is the bigger issue. No marriage, not a broken marriage. Still a broken family. A kid with a widow or widower for a parent from birth is still way ahead of a kid who never had a Dad — that’s what I’ve seen, and what studies I’ve seen say. A widow and kids is a fragile family, but not a broken one. We both see that the fix to the schools is to encourage marriage.

Perhaps we should lock up the sperm-father until he agrees to marry the Mom. In work camps like boot camps, not criminal jails.