I can elaborate on that but for this topic it suffices to say that IMHO the situation of your parents while raising kids is very important in how these kids stand in life, and even then when they become adults they have to choose, do I want to be a victim and play that role or do I want to do everything I can to make it.
Fully agreed.
It becomes very difficult to discuss statistics, if statistics related to ethnicity are considered "scientific racism".
In the USA,
"The strongest predictor of whether a person will end up in prison, is that they were raised by a single parent” ("Father Absence and Youth Incarceration" paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, 1998, by C.C. Harper and S.S. McLanahan.)
Now, a disproportionate fraction of African-Americans are born to single mothers. There have been papers showing how the racial disparities in crime have tracked the prevalence of single parents in the twentieth century, but unfortunately I can't find any references right now.
Is it racist to point this out? Many believe it is. Here in Finland, there is no discussion about this (statistics between criminality and single parent upbringing) at all, because it is considered to be victimizing single parents, who already have it rough. You know, intersectional feminism being a government policy now and all.
Culture, and especially how it affects the concept of family or raising kids, is something we should be allowed to criticize, so that we could find ways to help families bring up capable, stable individuals, and not disgruntled racial activists or social justice warriors or hikikomoris.
This is also why the concept of "multiculturalism" is unworkable in practice. The core of each human culture is the shared moral values and expected behaviour, and most humans cannot just switch between different sets based on who they are interacting with. (This is also the true reason why people want to live amongst others they consider "like them": it is not about looking the same, it is about having the same core rules and expectations on social behaviour.)
The unavoidable end results of multiculturalism and social justice are exactly the same: division, fracturing societies into small tribes with their own internal rules.
It is supposed to be "all about ethnic foods and nice gaming sessions" (as a Finnish politician put it
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), but you don't need multiculturalism for people of different backgrounds to live together: you just need a shared core set of rules and moral values – a shared
core culture, or
basis –, on top of which everyone is welcome to add their own flavour on top.
Just like you don't need word policing to ensure productive, mutually beneficial interaction between humans: you just need to teach people to handle their own emotions without getting into a frenzy or falling into a catatonic state, and to solve conflicts via organized discussion (and not a shouting match or cancellation demands). Sometimes honest discussion hurts, but if it is important, it tends to be well worth it.