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Who do you think will make a better citizen one day, a child that grows up in a home with two parents, loved, supported, and safe- Or one with a single mother, unwanted, in poverty, and susceptible to abuse?
The question is simple and powerful.
Kids who grow up with the resources and support they need have incredible odds of making it to adulthood to become meaningful contributors to society.
Here’s proof; Crime had begun to rise in the 1960s, continued through the ’70s and ’80s, and by 1990, it seemed that everyone was scared, everywhere, all the time. Everyone agreed that violent crime was out of hand, that the criminals were getting younger, and that the problem would only worsen.
But the problem didn’t get worse.
In the early 1990s, violent crime began to fall — and then it fell and fell and fell some more. In many places today, violent crime is at historic lows. From 1991 to 2001, violent crime in the U.S. fell more than 30 percent, a decline not seen since the end of Prohibition.
Let’s use New York City as an example. In 1990, there were more than 2,200 homicides, but that number decreased to fewer than 300 a year in the last couple of years. But it wasn’t just New York: with a few exceptions, crime across the U.S. has plunged.
