"More than 180,000 American children were left fatherless by World War II."
Somehow, the US murder rate was lower after World War II than it is today.
Perhaps there is some other variable at work here?
Even though there were 180,000 children left fatherless, the social fabric of the country was different.
Many of the mothers remarried and there was still a father in the family. Most of the children in that situation were very young war babies and probably never remembered their natural fathers, only their step fathers.
If the mother never remarried, then other extended family uncles stepped up as surrogate fathers.
How many bunker buddies came back to the USA & MARRIED the widow/family of their fallen comrade???
SOMEHOW—with all the ‘statistics this country pays taxpayer money to vomit up-—THAT doesn’t ever show up.
Lack of fathers and the undermining of all societal entities that reinforce ethical and moral behavior.
Period
There is a big difference between never having a father and losing a father later in life. Too many Black boys never knew a father because if the father lived in the home with the mother, she would have her welfare payments reduced severely.
Nope. In those days most homes had a dad
Hero worship, and churched children was the difference. There are studies that Mothers who revere their dead Husbands, and use him as an example of goodness and righteousness, raise studious and upright children.
I am not a black mother, nor am I a welfare breeder. I can tell you when a Mom tells the kids what a dirtbag their baby-daddy is, it destroys the child inside. I still am struck by the persecution of Adrian Peterson for using corporal punishment on his sons. They made a LOUD example of him to warn people from using a firm hand on children, especially black children. AP may have been to harsh, but who am I to judge? With the state of the news reporting, I disbelieve nearly all the facts the so called news reports.
My own Father seldom touched us kids, but he did. My Mother too, she would take ironing cord from the board and snap it at us as we ran back to bed. She got me once, and I learned to listen up right quick, as did my other siblings learned from just one of us being punished. My dad would have us cut willow switches off of the tree, or break out the belt. He never used the belt, but he did use the willow branch. Nobody in the family of 7 kids sees it as wrong today, but we are all strict with the kids we raised, minus one. My oldest brother had a wife who could kick Tysons bottom. He ended up afraid of her, and so he could not discipline his son at all. The kid learned to bully his Dad, ended up attacking him with a ball pein hammer when he was 13. He is in and out of prison now. The only grandkid who has seen trouble and lived it out of 20 of them.
It’s called welfare, a mother will be paid more if there is no father around. The “more” is more than the father can himself provide.