Research will show that boys raised outside of intact marriages are, on average, more than twice as likely as other boys to wind up in jail -- with each year spent without a dad increasing the odds of future incarceration by 5 percent (NJCCR.org). While there can be a variety of reasons as to why a young male could become delinquent (such as race, income, intelligence, etc.) family structure or lack thereof was rated as the main reason. ... This means that if a boy lives with his father and his father has not remarried, than the boy is less likely to run afoul than those in all other family...

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Ida Ida seemed to be an average 15 year-old girl who lives at home with her mother and father, Annie and Lecon and her sister, Pauline. ... Once Clara became pregnant with Lecon's child, the family fell apart and the family lost respect for both Lecon and Clara. ... In doing this she was also taking initiative in helping the family. ... She also did not have her family pushing her to succeed in her education. ... Her family had just been shattered but Ida still attempted to save the family by agreeing to become the alleged pregnant female in their house to save any of the shame on t...

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