Great comment. Richard Tremblay has done some incredible work in Canada on chronic physical aggression in children which shows that interventions need to happen as early in pregnancy as possible, at the latest. There are a number of studies available online, but I found this obscure YouTube video particularly helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOAi-yyGSJ4&t=2647s . In general his work shows that chronic physical aggression is epigenetic in nature and caused by a number of risk factors which tend to correlate quite significantly with the economic socio-economic sorting associated with single motherhood. Stress related cytokines seem to play a particularly significant role, but I would read the 2018 paper.
I mention all this because in addition to a massive shift towards vocational training, there needs to be a secondary school program geared towards helping teenagers envisage what type of life they want to lead, and giving them the skinny on what their children are likely to encounter if they pursue certain life paths. The impact on social mobility for boy children alone, should dissuade teenage girls from ever wanting to become single mothers. A lot of our pre-industrial social systems imparted by Christianity might seem quite condemnatory, judgemental and geared to punish, but they probably existed for good reasons- to aid in the social health and well-being of the community.
Great comment. Richard Tremblay has done some incredible work in Canada on chronic physical aggression in children which shows that interventions need to happen as early in pregnancy as possible, at the latest. There are a number of studies available online, but I found this obscure YouTube video particularly helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOAi-yyGSJ4&t=2647s . In general his work shows that chronic physical aggression is epigenetic in nature and caused by a number of risk factors which tend to correlate quite significantly with the economic socio-economic sorting associated with single motherhood. Stress related cytokines seem to play a particularly significant role, but I would read the 2018 paper.
I mention all this because in addition to a massive shift towards vocational training, there needs to be a secondary school program geared towards helping teenagers envisage what type of life they want to lead, and giving them the skinny on what their children are likely to encounter if they pursue certain life paths. The impact on social mobility for boy children alone, should dissuade teenage girls from ever wanting to become single mothers. A lot of our pre-industrial social systems imparted by Christianity might seem quite condemnatory, judgemental and geared to punish, but they probably existed for good reasons- to aid in the social health and well-being of the community.