[tomcar288]

if poverty is the cause of divorces/families breaking up then why does the US (a developed country) have one of the highest divorce rates?

[Podgajski]

Because most people who seem wealthy have a lot of money issues as well. And divorce is not only caused by poverty. For example, Christianity looks down on divorce and there are fewer Christians in the US.

But this proves the lead point that fatherlessness does not cause crime, poverty does.