Are the antifa vandals and criminals composed disproportionately of youthful men and women from fatherless homes? In 1995, David Blankenhorn in his book wrote that 40 percent of children were growing up in fatherless homes. Does this affect the expression of violence and violent anti-social behavior? This question is raised because the correctional system contains mostly youths who are from fatherless homes. The latter source says “7 out of every 10 youth that are housed in state-operated correctional facilities, including detention and residential treatment, come from a fatherless home. (U.S. Department of Justice)”
Blankenhorn wrote
“Never before in this country have so many children grown up without knowing what it means to have a father…Fatherlessness is the most harmful demographic trend of this generation[, and is] … the engine driving our most urgent social problems, from crime to adolescent pregnancy to child sexual abuse to domestic violence against women.”
Kids born in 1995 would now be 25 years old, about the age group of the Portland antifa rioters whose mug shots are appearing on the web.
Antifa is primarily white. The BLM phenomenon may also be affected by fatherless homes, but it seems to me that what cannot be ignored is the effects of critical race theory (CRT) on that movement. CRT began around 1985-1990 and spread through law journals. It has had enough time to seep down into the minds of black students and activists. CRT has a number of facets that help explain the attitudes and demands of BLM activists. The nature of CRT is explored and criticized at length by Daniel Subotnik here. (This link downloads as a pdf file. This article is the source of the Blankenhorn quotes above.)
5:35 pm on August 15, 2020
