"Families do shape character, and thus directly impact crime. The
empirical evidence supporting this view is overwhelming. For example,
researchers at the National Institute of Mental Heath studied
high-risk inner-city neighborhoods. They found that when kids grow up
in safe, stable families, only about six percent of them will become
delinquent. Contrast that with kids raised in unstable, one-parent
families: Ninety percent of them will become delinquent. Clearly, it's
not poverty or race that is the chief cause crime; it's the lack of
moral training during morally formative years.... Most Americans don't
know about the connection between family and crime -- which is why the
Church must issue a wake-up call. Our children deserve better than to
be surrendered to settings that prepare them for a life of crime. The
only institution than can provide this crucial moral training is the
fragile, but irreplaceable, family." --Charles Colson
I agree, the family is the basic building block of society. It all starts and ends here. The family used to have the support of the public school system, the church, state government and so on. That is not the case anymore. The church has been bought by the feds, the schools are corupted and the family is under pressure from all sides. No wonder that the family unit itself has fallen victim to this onslaught of faithlessness and selfishness with everyone going their own way. The nation is morally bankrupt, we see it everywhere, just turn TV on.
