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* On the August 9 2018 edition of Fox & Friends, Kirk said: > “It’s a real tragedy going on in Chicago right now… What I was really struck by is there was not this huge call for gun control… Being from Chicago, we have seen the carnage increase over the last couple of years, and it really is a broken culture problem. And the common theme after talking to my fellow Chicagoans is that we have a lack of father problem in the Black community, especially in Chicago. And just one quick statistic, in the 1960’s, the single motherhood rate in Chicago and across the country was about 18 percent in the Black community. Now it’s over 75 percent. … Think about that. In Chicago, only 25 percent of young Black youth will even have a father in the household, and that has contributed to this endless cycle of gang violence and gun violence.”  > mediamatters.org > +1
* In a commentary summary of Kirk’s views, the Wikipedia entry reports: “In 2018, Kirk cited single motherhood in Chicago’s Black community as a cause of gun violence, blaming the absence of a father from some Black households on ‘a broken culture problem’.” Wikipedia<ref>{{cite web|title=Wikipedia|url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Kirk|publisher=en.wikipedia.org|access-date=2025-11-11}}</ref>
* Separately, he’s made remarks emphasising that for young women the “biblical model” is marriage and children rather than career first. For example, in a 2025‐blog piece: > “Having a family will change your life in the best ways, so get married and have kids. You won’t regret it.”  > Institute for Family Studies