Comments by "Jessica" (@jayjaydubful) on "The True Cost of the War On Drugs - Ioan Grillo" video.

You realise there is no evidence base for that opinion?
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@tomforsythe7024 all of it except the first two lines, which I totally agree with. I disagree that having two parents & a stay at home mother would reduce interest in drugs. Drugs are interesting. I work with young people (& have been one) & haven't noticed any trends in who is interested in drugs. Most young people who are interested in (illegal) drugs have a short phase & then naturally come out of it. The trends are when people develop addictions & problematic relationships with drugs. Those people are more likely to be male. They are also more likely to have underlying mental health problems & experience of trauma of some kind. Experience of sexual abuse/violence very common in females.
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Research shows that family structure in itself has little effect on children’s cognitive and emotional outcomes once other factors such as parental education are taken into account (Millenium Cohort study). Recent research focusing on life satisfaction, relationships with peers and feelings about family life found these to be more positive for those children who were, or had been, part of a single parent family. There are often very good reasons for the single parent (99% of the time the mother) to be single. Better to support single parent families (eg affordable health care to enable mothers to work) so they don't live in hardship which causes stress and increases vulnerability to abuse.
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@tomforsythe7024 there does appear to be statistical benefit to children who grow up in a happy, stable two parents family. But sole breadwinner families are more likely to divorce than two breadwinner families. The negative impacts of growing up in a single parent family are outweighed by the negative impacts of growing up in an unhappily married family (I acknowledge the similar risks of stepparents). How would you plan to make dads stay with their families, to not domestically abuse, not have problematic alcohol/drug/gambling habits, go to prison?
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@TKe-wf2to regulate the market - see Transform
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