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Among the true “root causes” of crime is the decline of the family. Colbert King has this column<\/a> in the WaPo on the eve of the MLK holiday weekend.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe family, that is, the group consisting of mother, father and child, still remains the main educational agency of mankind,\u201d King said<\/a>. Those words can\u2019t top the majesty and call to action of King\u2019s \u201cI Have a Dream<\/a>\u201d oration, or match the moral teachings of his \u201cLetter from Birmingham Jail<\/a>.\u201d But they go to the heart of what\u2019s missing in the lives of the many who are not free to join in this weekend\u2019s festivities.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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I think of boys getting guns and girls getting babies. Children who know how to create kids but not how to raise them. And I think of those dreadful numbers behind youth violence and carjackings, high school absenteeism and truancy rates, and the stream of young boys and girls \u2014 yes, boys and girls, not the amorphous \u201cteens\u201d \u2014 and face how far we have fallen from maintaining King\u2019s \u201cmain educational agency of mankind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The decline of the family, particularly among black Americans, is not the legacy of nineteenth century injustice. It accelerated beginning in the 1960s. Partly, it was the overall national decline. Yet it was made worse by the welfare state of the Great Society that had been touted as a measure to reduce<\/em> crime. See this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the end, culture trumps everything. A culture of commitment to family, raising children with moral values, work ethic, and obedience to law would go a long way toward reducing crime in the long run, even if it didn’t affect the poverty that is so often touted as the root cause of crime. But of course it would affect poverty. People who stay in school, refrain from crime, work hard, and have their children within stable families regularly climb out of poverty into the middle class. Cultural change to encourage more people to that is the path forward.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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