Ben Carson: “Children Raised By Single Parents End Up Poor And Become Criminals”

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26. Truth be told...

where I grew up at (a poor city in Metro Detroit) there were a lot of single-parent households in the project that I lived in, mostly single mothers. I can't speak for EVERY single mother that lived in that 3 story building, but I can say that there was a lot of crime and a lot of issues with child negligence and molestation in that particular building (which has since been torn down, thank god). Single parent households are tough to grow up in, no doubt, especially for a boy living without a birth father.

BUT, Carson is wrong in saying that every single parent households produce criminals at a higher rate.

I've seen my cousins and my aunt struggle without their dad around and my aunt working up to 16 hours, 5 days a week, to save up enough to move to a better city, send my cousins to good schools, and make sure that food was on the table. She did all of this by herself for nearly 25 years until my younger cousin was 18 and off to Wayne State. My aunt wasn't some hoe who fucked around and had kids because she was "lazy and wanted to live off the government"; her man (I refuse to call him an "uncle&quot raped her and she ended up carrying triplets (my cousins) before he was convicted of another crime and sent to the pokey. I cannot fathom what kind of hell my cousins would have gone through with a monster like that in their house who didn't contribute shit.

So yes, some single parent households aren't ideal for kids, but neither are double parent households. It's about single situations, not the rule. Some criminals come from the ghetto with a single mom or dad that gave zero fucks about raising their kids...but there are other criminals who came from rich yuppie areas where Biff and Muffy spoiled them rotten. So Carson needs to gtfo with this broadbrushing bullshit and actually come up with a "solution" instead!