London riots: Absent fathers have a lot to answer for

Many
factors are to blame for the riots in London and other English cities. One of
them has to be the absence of a father-figure from the lives of so many of the
rioters. There is a well established link between father-absence and juvenile
delinquency.

In her
blog, British commentator, Christine Odone, makes the same observation.

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