Well the evidence is actually in the white paper that the article is about. Amazingly, in the white paper the correlation between crimes and single parent households is one of the weakest. The strongest by far is poverty.
It must have taken quite some guts and determination to spin this into a story that claims that fatherlessness is the root cause of crime. But it makes sense if you check who the authors of the paper and of the WSJ article are.
It must have taken quite some guts and determination to spin this into a story that claims that fatherlessness is the root cause of crime. But it makes sense if you check who the authors of the paper and of the WSJ article are.
Please have a look if you want to be convinced: See https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/reports/ifs-strong... table 2 and 3.