?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Case+for+Parental+Licensure&rft.creator=Lykken%2C+David+T.&rft.subject=Developmental+Psychology&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=The+violent+crime-rate+in+the+United+States+increased+nearly+500%25+from+1960+to+1992.+Subsequent+small+decreases+can+be+attributed+to+the+500%25+increase+since+1980+in+the+number+of+men+locked+up+in+American+prisons.+The+most+plausible+explanation+for+this+increase+in+crime+and+other+social+pathology+is+the+sharp+increase+since+the+1960s+in+the+proportion+of+young+men+who+were+reared+without+the+participation+of+their+biological+fathers.+In+the+U.S.%2C+boys+reared+without+fathers+are+approximately+seven+times+more+likely+to+become+delinquent%2C+then+criminal.+Girls+reared+without+fathers+are+more+likely%2C+in+consquence%2C+to+produce+babies+out-of-wedlock%2C+to+become+teen-age+runaways%2C+and+to+drop+out+of+school.+Millions+of+American+children+are+now+being+reared+by+(or+domiciled+with)+parents+who+are+incompetent%2C+over-burdened%2C+immature%2C+or+unsocialized+themselves+and+many+of+these+children+will+be+thereby+cheated+of+their+birthright+to+life%2C+liberty%2C+and+the+pursuit+of+happiness.+It+is+argued+that+society+has+a+responsibility+to+these+children+to+require+that+persons+who+plan+to+acquire+a+child+biologically+must+meet+the+same+minimal+standards+expected+of+persons+hoping+to+adopt+a+baby%2C+namely%2C+that+they+be+mature%2C+married%2C+self-supporting%2C+and+neither+criminal+nor+crazy.&rft.publisher=Guilford+Publications%2C+New+York&rft.contributor=Millon%2C+Theodore&rft.contributor=Simonsen%2C+Erik&rft.contributor=Birket-Smith%2C+Morten&rft.contributor=Davis%2C+Roger+D.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F768%2F3%2F178.pdf&rft.identifier=++Lykken%2C+David+T.++(1998)+The+Case+for+Parental+Licensure.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F768%2F