>>Wasn't aware the onus was on me for a cure.
Depends whether you'd prefer to fix the blame or the problem.
>>But I gave you a strong hint on a major factor - it relates to the very question you asked. I'll give you a hint...you assumed a plural context.
You mean single parent rather than parents? I won't bore you with sophist discussions about 56 per 1000 teens always requiring plural parents ;-) but I agree that dad not being around does help account for lots of social consequences.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
