In today’s “woke” cultural climate, there are certain things you can’t say. You can’t say that chromosomes, and not surgery, hormones, and clothes determine gender. You can’t say that 38,000 illegal immigrants are currently in US prisons, according to the Justice Department. And you can’t say that children from single-mother households have issues.
Cancelled Viewpoint
In 2009, in her book “Guilty: Liberal ‘Victims’ and Their Assault on America,” conservative author Ann Coulter proposed exactly that in a chapter called “Victim of a Crime? Thank a Single Mother.” Like her 2015 book, Adios America, “Liberal Victims” was “cancelled” by social justice warriors.
Did Coulter do her statistical homework? Yes. She documented that children raised in single-mother homes “are five times more likely to commit suicide, nine times more likely to drop out of high school, 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances, 14 times more likely to commit rape (for the boys), 20 times more likely to end up in prison, and 32 times more likely to run away from home.”
Nor did Coulter blame divorced, separated and widowed women, who often are victims of circumstance, in her indictment; no, she confined her wrath to those who narcissistically choose to be a single mother as in “and baby makes two.”
Author Cancelled
Why was Coulter cancelled? The facts she exposed were “micro-aggression.” They were mean and hurt people’s feelings cried the virtue signalers who populate today’s woke movement.
Yet, Coulter wasn’t alone in her sociological observations. “Mentioning the cultural catastrophe brought about by single-parent households may be ‘insensitive,'” read an editorial like the News and Record, “but ignoring the source of the problem will solve nothing.” The problem? Like Coulter, the editorial cited “about 70 percent of the perpetrators hail from single-parent households.”
Scientific research confirms some of the correlations. “Growing up in single-parent families is associated with an elevated risk of involvement in crime by adolescents,” the authors of a study published in June 2020 wrote in the journal Psychology, Crime & Law. “More research is needed to determine the effects of the different constituting events of single-parent families.”
Growing up in a single-parent family also “has negative effects on children’s emotional well-being, cognitive development, and school performance,” and correlates with “poor school adjustment,” the authors add.
Gun Crimes
Children, notably boys, who grew up in a single-parent household commit the highest number of high-profile gun crimes echoed author Warren Thomas Farrell. “Micro-aggression apologists don’t want to hear.”
“There’s common denominators among mass shooters, the most obvious is that they’re male—98 percent are male. A second common denominator is that they’re almost all dad-deprived males,” Farrell dared to say.
These young criminals “are deprived of their dads” and likely “feeling neglected and depressed,” said Farrell, who chaired of the Coalition to Create a White House Council on Boys and Men.
Those this reporter has interviewed express negative emotional consequences, such as feelings of guilt and excessive responsibility from growing up in single-parent homes.
Sacrifice and Guilt
“My mother was always telling me what sacrifices she made for me and how she had given her whole life to me,” Michael, who sought recovery from addiction, told this reporter. “She was all alone and it was difficult, almost impossible, for me to find my own partner in life. I felt so responsible for her. I still do.”
The negative results of growing up in single-mother homes, whether on society or on children, are too often buried. But talk about that and be prepared to be cancelled or sometimes much worse. Like Anne Coulter, some people just have to say it like it is. It just comes natural to them.
