Kids from poor and broken homes, boys especially, need successful role models from the real world.
There are more than enough children from broken homes without deliberately adding to the toll of unhappy children.
They may even carry less financial wisdom into their careers, as many young pro athletes hail from broken homes in disadvantaged communities.
"We're in the disaster business--disasters of nature or broken homes, or trying to survive, " says Robert Rudd, community relations and development secretary for the Salvation Army in California.
Since the teenagers' arrest, all the familiar theories have been rehearsed: broken homes, violent films and video games, easy access to firearms, a longing to catch the journalists' attention.
Yet how many people do you know who tell you this is the most trying time of the year for them, many from broken homes that should never have been broken?
But if raising the level of happiness is to be the chief aim of government policy, as he argues it should, where then is the call to make divorce harder, given the pain that he says broken homes inflict on children?
"Many times the children that are taken in in these types of criminal activities are children that are dissaffected, they are from broken homes, they may be on the street themselves -- they are really looking for a meal, they are looking for shelter, they are looking for someone to take care of them, and that's really the first approach that's made, " said Perkins.
The 20-mile-long drive, which is double the distance of the most direct route, passed by broken down homes, downed power lines, a smouldering mall which had been on fire for hours, nearly empty streets, and once in Algiers, a half-hour later, this strange sight.
Domestic burglary and robbery saw the largest decline with 1, 747 fewer people who had their homes broken into and 365 fewer personal robberies.
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Each year, 50 residents of Red Hook and the surrounding area perform community-based public service, including repairing broken locks on people's homes and cleaning up graffiti.
But Moore seemed to bear the brunt, with some neighborhoods reduced to ruins, with broken cars wrapped around trees and lodged into homes.
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She said the homes of workers had been attacked with stones and their windows broken.
Second homes in the Hamptons are being sold at lower selling prices, and broken up families are having to adjust to living in smaller apartments.
Broken glass, destroyed motorcycles and overturned tables littered roads beside rows of burnt-out homes and shops, evidence of the widespread chaos of the last two days.
Meanwhile, downed power lines, leaking gas lines, broken water pipes and still-blazing fires have blocked the return of thousands of Southern Californians who fled their homes this week ahead of more than 20 wind-whipped wildfires.
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