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Introduction: The Family-Hating Culture
1. Statistics on juvenile crime and arrests are taken from U.S. Department
of Justice statistics cited in Barbara Kantrowitz et al., "Teen Violence:
Wild in the Streets," August 2, 1993, pp. 43, 45. A Time report of
August 23, 1993, notes that "between 1986 and 1991, murders com-
mitted by teens ages 14 to 17 grew by 124%." ( Nancy Gibbs, "Laying
Down the Law," Time, August 23, 1993, p. 25.) On youth, weapons,
and crime see also William J. Bennett, The Index of Leading Cultural
Indicators ( New York: Touchstone, 1994), pp. 29-33.
2. For the best rapid overview of teenage crime, pregnancy, and SAT
scores, see Bennett, The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators,
pp. 27-33, 72-77, and 82-85 respectively. On SAT verbal score
declines among the brightest students, see Richard J. Herrnstein and
Charles Murray, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in
American Life ( New York: Free Press, 1994), pp. 427-29. One inter-
esting, albeit nonstatistical, study of increasing psychopathological
behavior among children is Dr. Ken Magid and Carole A. McKelvey's
1987 book, High Risk: Children Without a Conscience ( Golden, Colo.:
M & M, 1987; New York: Bantam, 1989).
3. Several important longitudinal studies have traced the relationship
between single parenthood and wayward child outcomes. Among them
is a thirty-year study of five thousand British children, all born in
March 1936, which noted that children raised in broken families were

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Assault on Parenthood: How our Culture Undermines the Family. Contributors: Dana Mack - author. Publisher: Encounter Books. Place of Publication: San Francisco. Publication Year: 2000. Page Number: 349.
    
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