Rather than defend the family and encourage marriage, the tax code does the opposite. The results of this disastrous policy are only too apparent. Even as its punitive tax policy discourages child rearing by traditional middle-class families, the federal government continues to subsidize illegitimacy and broken homes. By placing crippling financial burdens on two-parent families, our government is essentially engineering social collapse. One need only consider current juvenile crime statistics.
Teenagers account for the largest portion of all violent crime in America.
More and more children grow up with little guidance from a parent who loves them. Seventy-two percent of adolescent murderers grew up without fathers, and 60 percent of America's rapists grew up in homes without fathers. On the other hand, children living with both biological parents are up to four times less likely than other children to have been expelled or suspended from school. Simply put, children need fathers. They need parents at home.