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The Father Factor — Crime on the Increase in ‘Dad-Free’ Zones

There’s a new federal crime study — will it take illegitimacy and fatherless boys into consideration?

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by TIM DRAKE, Register Senior Writer Wednesday, Dec 13, 2006 8:00 AM Comment
Visiting a N.Y. prison. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic)" />

LOS ANGELES — Robert was looking for love. What he found was a gang.

“I joined a gang for a family,” he told the PBS show Religion and Ethics Newsweekly. “I never had one when I was growing up. I joined the gang for a family. That’s it.”

Living with his new “family” led him to eight years in prison — for robbery and car-jacking.

He ended up being part of Homeboy Industries, a

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