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Broken Families Far More Lethal To Children than Guns
By Daniel Greenfield
January 13, 2013
Its not the gun culture, its the broken family culture.
A new Justice Department study looking at violent crimes committed against youthdefined as Americans from 12 to 17 years of agediscovered that the rate of serious violent crime committed against youth by a perpetrator using a firearm dropped 95 percent from 1994 to 2010.
The studyViolent Crime Against Youth, 1994-2010also discovered that American youth who were victims of a serious violent crime in 2010 were six times more likely to have been attacked by a perpetrator wielding a knife than one wielding a gun.
The study, released Dec. 20, also discovered that an American youth was 3.8 times more likely to become the victim of a serious violent crime if he or she lived in a home where the householder was unmarried than if he or she lived with married parents. In 2010, 7.4 out of every 1,000 youth living with married parents became the victims of a serious violent crime. At the same time, 27.8 out of every 1,000 living with an unmarried householder became the victims of a serious violent crime.
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