Maybe if you knew what the hell you were talking about, you'd know that fathers gone, broken families and unwanted pregnancies come from bad education, low wage jobs and no jobs at all.
One would think that if that's true, then we would have seen a spike like none other during the Great Depression.
Is that true?
ps: what do the 3 things you have cited have to do with fathers being absent from the home? What does a low wage job have to do with carelessly sticking your dingus in a girl you met at the mall?
LOL! You actually think that there wasn't such a spike? Have you ever read or seen anything about the Depression outside the Waltons? The fact is, accurate records were not kept till the 50s but there is plenty of evidence of spikes especially in crime.
The murder rate of the 1930s was not equaled until the 70s and 80s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_homicide_rate But I wanted to answer this question of yours: What did we ever do before the New Deal? "Prior to Social Security, it was common to see old people starving in the streets after they retired. Social Security largely eliminated this shameful sight."
Did you say welfare increases poverty?
Poverty rates (Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Reports, P-60 series.)
1959 22.4%
1960 22.2 < recession year
1961 21.9
1962 21.0
1963 19.5
1964 19.0 < Johnson's Great Society begins
(watch the poverty rate drop faster.)1965 17.3
1966 14.7
1967 14.2
1968 12.8
1969 12.1
1970 12.6 < recession year
1971 12.5
1972 11.9
1973 11.1
1974 11.2 < recession year
1975 12.3 < recession year>
(The 1975 SUN-PAC decision legalized corporate political action committees, and corporate activism in Washington soared. Corporate lobbyists wasted no time scaling back the New Deal and the Great Society.)1976 11.8 < individual benefits level off, decline >
Watch the poverty level rise.1977 11.6
1978 11.4
1979 11.7
1980 13.0 < recession year
1981 14.0 < Reagan-era cuts in individual benefits
1982 15.0 < recession year
1983 15.2
1984 14.4
1985 14.0
1986 13.6
1987 13.4
1988 13.0
1989 12.8
1990 13.5 < recession year
1991 14.2 < recession year
1992 14.8
1993 15.1
"Conservatives object that this [drop in poverty] has been accompanied by enormous social costs: rising crime, teenage motherhood, child poverty, the disintegration of families, the deterioration of the black community, etc. But there are more compelling explanations for these trends than the modest increases in welfare. As for the rise of crime, Dr. Brandon Centerwall has produced one of the most famous studies, which found that the mere introduction of television into a region causes its crime rate to double as soon as the first television generation comes of age. (13) As for teenage motherhood, many would be surprised to learn it was actually a greater problem in the 50s, not the 80s. (14) Child poverty can be tied to single motherhood, but the reasons why these mothers are poor is because women are still paid less than men, and half of all fathers who are supposed to pay child support don't honor their commitments. (15) The divorce rate has doubled since the 60s, but this is a sociological trend, not an economic one. Polls show that more marriages are happier today than in the 50s, largely because men and women are no longer trapped in bad marriages by the stigma of divorce. (16) As for the deepening despair of large parts of the black community, much of this can be traced to "white flight" (and job flight) from the inner cities, as well as the redlining of neighborhood districts, which has left blacks fighting for survival in economically depressed ghettoes. The point is that conservatives face an insurmountable challenge if they wish to turn welfare into a "black box" that explains all of America's social problems."
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-welfarepoverty.htm 
