Homicide Rates and the Prevalence of Single Parents

The Truth About Guns has posted an article entitled "Politics is Downstream of Culture: Let’s Look at Single-Parent Homes and Homicide Rates" by Konstadinos Moros. He noted a correlation between the states with the highest homicide rates and the states with the highest rates of single mothers:

    Here’s a fun fact using data published recently in an article at stacker.com listing states with the most single-parent households.

    As always, correlation is not causation. That said, not one state of the ten ranked lowest for single-parent households has a homicide rate above the national average. However, all of the top ten highest states for single-parent households have homicide rates above the national average…except for Alaska.

Another interesting fact: "More than half (51.2%) of all Black children lived with one parent in 2022, compared with about one in five (21.3%) of white children." Moros probably was aware of the connection but chose not to say anything inasmuch as he blames welfare programs and high incarceration rates due to the "war on drugs" for the large number of single-parent households.  

    Speaking of homicide rates: "Danger across the border: Nine Mexican cities place among the 10 deadliest in the world"--Daily Mail. Mexico has nine cities in the top 10 deadliest cities (measured by homicide rates) in the world. "The report listed the western Mexico municipality of Colima as the murder capital in the world with 181.9 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants." New Orleans came in at number 8 on the list with a homicide rate of 70.6 per 100,000.