Conservative Christians have known it all along: Neighborhoods with a greater percentage of traditional two-parent households have less crime. That\u2019s likely why the traditional family has been under direct assault by what can only be called satanic forces for many decades. As goes the traditional nuclear family, so goes Western civilization.<\/p>\n
The proof is plain as day. A report Tuesday by the Institute for Family Studies<\/a> concluded that neighborhoods with strong families are safer. Safer neighborhoods mean safer cities and towns. Safer cities and towns mean safer counties and states. A safer country leads to prosperity and stability for all.<\/p>\n Why, then, would progressives promote same-sex marriage and LGBT ideology<\/a>, abortion, the sexualization of youth, and career over family and children?<\/p>\n In religious terms, it must be a hatred of the God. In sociological terms, it is a hatred of Western civilization.<\/p>\n The IFS study<\/a> will fuel the hatred that is the essence of the progressive left.<\/p>\n Theories about the cause of crime generally focus on \u201csocial structural factors,\u201d according to a Washington Examiner<\/a>\u00a0article on the IFS study. These factors include poverty, the presence of law enforcement and unemployment.<\/p>\n The IFS study determined that \u201ccore social institutions\u201d such as churches<\/a>, schools and \u2014 most importantly \u2014 the family significantly impact crime rates in communities.<\/p>\n The institute analyzed data from more than 600 cities focusing on crime, violent crime and homicide. It found that \u201cfamily structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of \u2026 urban violence across cities in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n According to the IFS, in cities with higher levels of single-parent households, \u201cthe national violent crime rates are 118% higher, and homicide rates are 255% higher in cities with prominent levels of single-parent households.\u201d<\/p>\n It said the conclusion holds even when \u201cfactors such as race, education, and poverty\u201d are taken into consideration.<\/p>\n In Chicago<\/a>, the study found, \u201cneighborhoods with higher levels of single parents had 226% higher violent crime rates and 436% higher homicide rates than neighborhoods with more intact families. Overall, crime in single-parent neighborhoods was 137% higher.\u201d<\/p>\n The IFS study also found that in cities with \u201chouseholds above the median share of single-parent families, overall crime is 48% higher than in cities with more two-parent households.\u201d<\/p>\n You don\u2019t have to be a sociologist or a statistician to see the positive impact traditional families<\/a> have on society. It only takes common sense. The benefits of a traditional two-parent household can not be overstated.<\/p>\n University of Virginia sociology professor W. Bradford Wilcox, co-author of the IFS study, concluded, \u201cThis new research indicates that our city streets are safer when families are more stable. Given this, policymakers should be aiming to strengthen families by taking steps \u2014 like teaching the \u2018success sequence\u2019 and eliminating marriage penalties in our means-tested programs \u2014 that shore up the cultural and economic foundations of family life.\u201d<\/p>\n Churches and schools are under attack by forces that seek to demonize traditional values by conflating them with bigotry and oppression. Progressive teachers and church leaders promote LGBT ideologies that, left unchecked, would destroy the traditional family \u2014 the foundation of Western civilization<\/a>.<\/p>\n Mark 10:6-9<\/a> is clear, \u201cBut from the beginning of creation, \u2018God made them male and female.\u2019 \u2018Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.\u2019 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.\u201d<\/p>\n Contained within that short verse is the nucleus of Western civilization, which germinated in Judaism and blossomed in Christian<\/a> Europe. The progressive left seeks to destroy the vine of Western civilization by destroying its root, the family.<\/p>\n\n IFS Families<\/a> by The Western Journal<\/a><\/p>\n While the IFS study made clear that single-parent households are \u201cnot the only predictor because poverty and race also affect crime levels,\u201d the resounding fact is that the traditional family is a key factor in lower crime rates.<\/p>\n A lot of it has to do with having a father in the house. The study indicated that family structure relates to crime in that criminal behavior \u201cis likely a byproduct of some mix of the heightened risk of family instability in the socialization of young children and the role that father absence plays in providing less guidance and oversight for adolescent and young adult males.\u201d<\/p>\n Boys, especially, need their fathers. Without a dad, a boy is much more likely to wander and get lost. According to the study, fathers are \u201cessential role models for their children, particularly their sons.\u201d Fathers model \u201cmale responsibility and achievement, how to be suitably assertive and independent, and how to relate acceptably to the opposite sex.\u201d<\/p>\n Put all of this together and a good father instills self-control, compassion and empathy in his son, \u201call of which deter criminal behavior<\/a>.\u201d No surprise here.<\/p>\n Christian wisdom and common sense go hand in hand. Get rid of one, and the other follows. When that happens, all that will be left is darkness and \u201cweeping and gnashing of teeth<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n This article appeared originally on The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Neighborhoods with Strong Families, Two-Parent Households Have Safer Streets: Study<\/a> appeared first on The Gateway Pundit<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Conservative Christians have known it all along: Neighborhoods with a greater percentage of traditional two-parent households have less<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n