single parents and crime

We all knew the correlation between crime and single-parent families was strong, but Bernard Chapin quotes from Ann Coulter's new book "Guilty: Liberal Victims and Their Assault on America" a summary of just how strong the correlation is. The chapter from which the following quote is taken has 138 end notes, so although I don't have the sources for these facts I can safely assume they're legit. For the proof I guess we'll just have to get the book ourselves. But until then, here's a tidbit courtesy of "Chapin's Inferno":

"We have single mothers because more than a million women choose to have children out of wedlock every year in America, and they do not wed or give up their babies for adoption. By their own choices, they consign their children to second-class status. Of all single mothers in America, only 6.5% are widows; 37.8% are divorced and 41.3% gave birth out of wedlock. Controlling for socioeconomic status, race, and place of residence, the strongest predictor of whether a person will end up in prison is that he was raised by a single parent. By 1996, 70% of inmates in state juvenile detention centers serving long-term sentences were raised by single mothers. Seventy-two percent of juvenile murderers and 60% of rapists come from single-parent homes. 70% of teenage births, dropouts, suicides, runaways, juvenile delinquents, and child murderers involve children raised by single mothers. Girls raised without fathers are more sexually promiscuous and more likely to end up divorced. A 1990 study showed that after controlling for single motherhood, the difference between black and white crime rates disappeared."

That last sentence is particularly telling. For those who think crime is a racial thing, it's not. It's a parenting thing. So how is it possible to begin to solve the crime problem in society without first addressing this lack of responsibility that causes it? And how is it possible to address the lack of responsibility without addressing the core beliefs and worldviews (or lack thereof) that lead to such behavior?