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No One Is Talking About The Direct Pipeline From Divorced Parents To School Shooters

VySky

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I've stated over and over the breakdown in family structure, including the absence of a father in the home, has negatively impacted our society.

A recent study reinforces my conclusions

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"When news broke of the Minneapolis shooter who opened fire on children attending mass at a Catholic school, news media carried the same photo of the suspect’s mother, no mention of a husband or father. It was a dead giveaway — “Robin” Westman’s parents were divorced. This important fact was only casually mentioned by a handful of media, days later.

To date, 434 school shootings have occurred since Columbine, resulting in 218 deaths, 510 injuries, and 397,000 children experiencing gun violence at school.

A 2018 international academic study found a strong link between childhood separation from parents and an “elevated risk for later violent criminality.” (The study specifically excluded children with deceased parents.) A subsequent nationwide analysis bolstered these results, finding a strong association between two-parent households and cities with markedly less crime. Indeed, nearly every school shooting in 2013 involved young men with divorced or never married parents."
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The below conclusions come from the study linked above.

Conclusions​

"This national cohort study augments existing published evidence that separation from a parent during childhood is strongly associated with elevated risk for later violent criminality. Child–parent separation may be a marker for a range of adversities and dysfunctionalities in the household, especially in families experiencing multiple transitions."

Experience of Child–Parent Separation and Later Risk of Violent Criminality - PMC

Separation from a parent during childhood has been linked with heightened longer-term violence risk, but it remains unclear how this relationship varies by gender, separation subgroup, and age at separation. This phenomenon was investigated by ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 
VySky said:
I've stated over and over the breakdown in family structure, including the absence of a father in the home, has negatively impacted our society.

A recent study reinforces my conclusions

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The below conclusions come from the study linked above.

Conclusions​

"This national cohort study augments existing published evidence that separation from a parent during childhood is strongly associated with elevated risk for later violent criminality. Child–parent separation may be a marker for a range of adversities and dysfunctionalities in the household, especially in families experiencing multiple transitions."

Experience of Child–Parent Separation and Later Risk of Violent Criminality - PMC

Separation from a parent during childhood has been linked with heightened longer-term violence risk, but it remains unclear how this relationship varies by gender, separation subgroup, and age at separation. This phenomenon was investigated by ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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But the pipeline between shooter and gun is invisible to you.

And what legislation are you proposing to assist families to stay families? I"m guessing I'm about to hear a lot about popular culture and entertainment and woke.
 
Bok Tuklo said:
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For the logistically challenged. (You don't know who you are so listen up.)

"Correlation does not imply causation" means that just because two things are related or occur together, it doesn't mean one directly causes the other. The observed association could be a coincidence, or it could be due to a hidden third factor (confounder) influencing both. For example, ice cream sales and sunburns both increase in the summer, but ice cream doesn't cause sunburns; the shared cause is the warm, sunny weather.
 
VySky said:
Notice the link is to "violent criminality" which includes school shootings.
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OK.

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Denmark vs United States: Crime Facts and Stats

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The Brad Dad said:
But the pipeline between shooter and gun is invisible to you.

And what legislation are you proposing to assist families to stay families? I"m guessing I'm about to hear a lot about popular culture and entertainment and woke.
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Hillary said it takes a village to raise a child and the right mocked her mercilessly.
 
Loulit01 said:
Hillary said it takes a village to raise a child and the right mocked her mercilessly.
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And that's what I'm getting at that I'll just get at: they don't ****ing care about any families. They continually legislate against families, against kids. The anti vax mandate is amazingly hostile towards every family that sends their kids to public schools. Their constant voting to cut school lunches. And their fav subject - their continued support of systemic racism that continually brutalizes non whites in this country, especially Black people.

And then we get to the part where they voted for a serial adulterer who's own kids couldn't even recollect anything about their childhood with him except one time he took Ivanka's call during a meeting.

But we're gonna hear about woke culture and Taylor Swift or whatever.
 
I’m all about wishing kids got to grow up in intact families. Fully support that. Think having a family and a home filled with love and routine and structure is incredibly important to a kid.

I think it would be great if every kid got to grow up in a loving family with both of their parents, extended families and a strong social network of loving people involved in their lives.

I’d also love to see every kid have all the food, medicine, school supplies, clothes, etc that they need. And a good helping of the things they want.



But we can’t magically make parents and families be happy and stay together.



Our current administration is stripping food stamps away from people, stripping Medicaid away from people, making life more expensive for families, removing social safety nets and also attacking educational, medical and scientific institutions.


And we haven’t even touched on the guns.
 
Airyaman said:
OK.

www.nationmaster.com

Canada vs United States: Crime Facts and Stats

Crime levels, Intentional homicide rate, Murder rate, Murder rate per million people, Rape rate and 86 More Interesting Facts and Stats
www.nationmaster.com

www.nationmaster.com

Lithuania vs United States: Crime Facts and Stats

Intentional homicide rate, Crime levels, Murder rate per million people, Murder rate, Rape rate and 73 More Interesting Facts and Stats
www.nationmaster.com

www.nationmaster.com

Denmark vs United States: Crime Facts and Stats

Crime levels, Intentional homicide rate, Murder rate, Murder rate per million people, Rape rate and 86 More Interesting Facts and Stats
www.nationmaster.com
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The study concludes that a broken home strongly raises the risk of violent criminality from their children.
 
VySky said:
I've stated over and over the breakdown in family structure, including the absence of a father in the home, has negatively impacted our society.

A recent study reinforces my conclusions

===============================================



The below conclusions come from the study linked above.

Conclusions​

"This national cohort study augments existing published evidence that separation from a parent during childhood is strongly associated with elevated risk for later violent criminality. Child–parent separation may be a marker for a range of adversities and dysfunctionalities in the household, especially in families experiencing multiple transitions."

Experience of Child–Parent Separation and Later Risk of Violent Criminality - PMC

Separation from a parent during childhood has been linked with heightened longer-term violence risk, but it remains unclear how this relationship varies by gender, separation subgroup, and age at separation. This phenomenon was investigated by ...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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What's your proposed solution to this problem? How do we, as a country, ensure that children have fathers?
 
BirdinHand said:
I’m all about wishing kids got to grow up in intact families. Fully support that. Think having a family and a home filled with love and routine and structure is incredibly important to a kid.

I think it would be great if every kid got to grow up in a loving family with both of their parents, extended families and a strong social network of loving people involved in their lives.

I’d also love to see every kid have all the food, medicine, school supplies, clothes, etc that they need. And a good helping of the things they want.



But we can’t magically make parents and families be happy and stay together.



Our current administration is stripping food stamps away from people, stripping Medicaid away from people, making life more expensive for families, removing social safety nets and also attacking educational, medical and scientific institutions.


And we haven’t even touched on the guns.
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One program that has achieved excellent results is Head Start.

Here we go:

The $750 million in proposed cuts to Head Start and Early Head Start included in the House Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations Subcommittee FY24 bill would have a devastating impact – when combined with the impact of inflation, roughly 80,000 fewer children would lose access to the life changing services of Head Start. In addition, workforce shortages would be exacerbated due to continued under-compensation, and the additional services that make Head Start and Early Head Start a powerful intervention for children from the most at-risk backgrounds would have to be curtailed.

The Impact of Proposed Budget Cuts to Head Start

A proposed $750 million budget cut to Head Start would leave roughly 80,000 fewer children with access to Head Start and Early Head Start.
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Thank you MAGA morons.

Facts and Impacts

Head Start works. Children make innumerable gains. These advantages appear immediately, last a lifetime, and positively impact generations.
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By the End of their Time in the Head Start Program​

  • Head Start children make progress in language, literacy, and math. Head Start children also score at the norm on letter-word knowledge by the end of the year. (Aikens et al., 2013; Bloom and Weiland, 2015)
  • Early Head Start children show significantly better social-emotional, language, and cognitive development. Children who attend Early Head Start and transition to Head Start are more ready for kindergarten than children who do not attend Head Start. (Love et al., 2002)
  • The Head Start Impact Study found Head Start children scored better than a control group of children in all measured domains of cognitive and social-emotional development. (HHS, 2010)
  • Head Start children in foster care or other non-parental care are more ready for school. (Lipscomb et al., 2013)
  • Head Start children have better social skills, impulse control, and approaches to learning. Head Start children also decrease their problem behaviors, such as aggression and hyperactivity. (Aikens et al., 2013)
  • Obese, overweight, or underweight children who participate in Head Start have a significantly healthier BMI by kindergarten. (Lumeng et al., 2015)
  • Children in Early Head Start are more likely to be immunized and have access to services for children with disabilities (Love et al., 2002).
  • Head Start children are more likely to receive dental checkups and have healthy eating patterns than non-participants. They have lower BMI scores and are less likely to be overweight compared to children in other non-parental care. (Lee et al., 2013)
  • When families participate in Head Start (as opposed to no early childhood education), children are 93% less likely to end up in foster care, a correlation not found by participating in any other types of early childhood education. (Klein et. al., 2017)
  • Children show additional gains in social-emotional development as a result of participating in Head Start at both 3 and 4 years old. (Aikens et al., 2013)
 
BirdinHand said:
I’m all about wishing kids got to grow up in intact families. Fully support that. Think having a family and a home filled with love and routine and structure is incredibly important to a kid.

I think it would be great if every kid got to grow up in a loving family with both of their parents, extended families and a strong social network of loving people involved in their lives.

I’d also love to see every kid have all the food, medicine, school supplies, clothes, etc that they need. And a good helping of the things they want.



But we can’t magically make parents and families be happy and stay together.



Our current administration is stripping food stamps away from people, stripping Medicaid away from people, making life more expensive for families, removing social safety nets and also attacking educational, medical and scientific institutions.


And we haven’t even touched on the guns.
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And let's also talk about what culture we want to aspire to: they shit all over any woman who is working and doesn't have kids, but not a word about the tech bros who don't seem to give a single shit about a single thing. They value nothing but money, and because they have these great lives funded by the company they can't imagine why rank and file employees don't wish to work 80 hours a week. Elon Musk is held in great esteem by the right and yet his entire lifestyle and created work environment is the epitome of being anti-family.

Republicans hate family. Family means weeknights and weekends with family, not working hard core to sell 8 more EVs that month.
 
Loulit01 said:
But that's not always possible, thus Hillary's village.
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Thus the continued high risk of violent criminality by kids from broken families.
 
This isn't a thread about families or saving kids.

This is a thread about protecting gun ownership.
 
VySky said:
The study concludes that a broken home strongly raises the risk of violent criminality from their children.
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And if you look further, I'm betting you'll find all sorts of maladies associated with broken homes. Broken homes = bad. Happy families = good.

Is there a point you'd like to make?
 
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