re: If single parent families are the issue with todays times how do you explain...

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All of the Scandinavian countries yall love to hate with the highest quality of living and lowest rates of crime also have some of the lowest rates of marriage???

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Generally a good looking and fit nation of people aren't getting married and are still happy? That's shocking

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pretty widely known Iceland has some of the highest single parent rates in the world. Not a lot of religion either. Doesn't look like a shite hole to me.

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They're too busy trying to figure out how to spell their names to commit crime.

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That equals out to whole buncha nothing goin on including crime

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You've never been.

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sidewalkside

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Did you wake up an decide to bring DU threads here?

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Homogeneous population with shared cultural values.

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Shares values which lead to a high trust environment. We have the complete opposite of that in America

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It's pretty widely known Iceland has some of the highest single parent rates in the world.

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Huh? The single parent rate in Iceland is 5% which is lower than countries like the US, Canada, and the UK. Carribean countries have the higher rates and Asia is on the low end, but much of Europe all hover between 4-6%.

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Shares values which lead to a high trust environment.

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And those values are primarily collectivist.

The US was a country whose culture was built by Anglos, who are more individualistic and believe in competition/industry.

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So then single parent households isn't the real issues is it?

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In America, they are a huge problem.

Nordic countries have shared values amongst their populations.

Single parent households aren’t a problem there.

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The average age for first marriage in Sweden was 34.2 years for women and 36.3 years for men in 2021.

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Well there ya go.

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So then single parent households isn't the real issues is it?

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There's plenty of data to back up that single parent homes lead to disasterous results for children in the US.

Now if the outcomes are better in say Denmark, it could be things like maybe the parents are divorced but still both actively involved with the kids.

Single parent homes in the US actually have far better results when the single parent is male. I suspect that's because most of the children that cause problems in society (crime, drug dealing etc) are boys, and the results are poor when nobody teaches them how to be a man.

The problem is that the vast majority of our single parent homes are female led with no male involvement, and that tends to lead to bad outcomes for young boys.