Remember last month when 3 teenagers were killed, gangland/execution-style, in Newark, New Jersey? The city yet reels from those teenagers' deaths. But note the following, pointed out not long after the killings by Steven Malanga in CityJournal:
"According to 2005 figures from the U.S. Census Bureau, only 32 percent of Newark children are being raised by their parents in a two-adult household."
"An astonishing 60 percent of the city’s kids are growing up without fathers."
"The city has one of the highest out-of-wedlock birthrates in the country, with about 65 percent of its children born to unmarried women. And 70 percent of those births are to women who are already poor, meaning that their kids are born directly into poverty."
Such figures are astonishing, and explain a lot.
