It’s well known that teens living outside of intact married households are more likely to commit crimes; this new study shows they are four times more likely to be victims of serious crime as well:
The study, “Violent Crime Against Youth, 1994-2010,” focused on serious violent crimes committed against “youth,” meaning children between the ages of twelve and seventeen. The study defined “serious violent crimes” as rape, other sexual assaults, robbery and aggravated assault.
According to DOJ findings, in 2010, 27.8 out of every 1,000 youth living with an unmarried householder became the victims of a serious violent crime. At the same time, only 7.4 out of every 1,000 youth living with married parents were similarly victimized.
While horrible news, this is not causation but correlation. Marriage is becoming more & more a middle and upper class phenomenon. In generational poverty, relationships are in flux, men are in & out of work or prison and marriage is the exception increasingly, not the norm.
These households & neighborhoods are higher in crime.