Juvenile Crime | The Root Cause of Juvenile Crime and Violence Is Poverty

In a boom economy, the most recent figures show that a staggering 40 percent of America’s children and youth remain in low-income families. Thirteen million are poor, and 6 million of those suffer destitution in households with less than half of poverty-level income. U.S. child poverty rates are two to 10 times higher than in Western Europe, Canada or Australia. Poverty is so strongly connected to nearly everything adults think is wrong with “kids today”—murder, violent crime, unintended pregnancy, AIDS, smoking, dropping out of school—that it dwarfs every other factor.

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