until you address the thousands of kids born to teen mothers that end up being in a single parent homes with no father (or raised by aging grandparents), nothing will change. It's a cycle of poverty that's never addressed. They end up joining gangs because mom is working and there are literally no parents around to guide them.
When the teen mother didn't finish high school and already has 3 kids with no father around, while trying to survive on a minimum wage job at Taco Bell (or insert any other job), that's the root of the issue. I'm not saying all single parent homes are like this, but in this city a majority are.
In 2014 80% of kids in Memphis had no fathers. That's staggering. Building community centers and talking about gun laws is not going to fix the crime. I have yet to see a single Memphis city politician bring this issue up. and I'm not saying all single parent homes end up with kids that are criminals, but the statistics are not in your favor.
In some parts of Memphis, more than 80 percent of households don't have fathers. However, some groups in the area are trying to change that.
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