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What Do We Expect?

There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future--that community asks for and gets chaos. Crime, violence, unrest, disorder--most particularly the furious, unrestrained lashing out at the whole social structure--that is not only to be expected; it is very near to inevitable.

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