(At the risk of sounding like a defender), There are those who would argue that creating conditions that will produce kids who will not be able to abide by the rules that the society in which they are expected to live in, is indeed genocide. Sort of like the way intermarraige is viewed as a threat to our existence. No one is getting shot, but it does pose a real threat to who we are.
Its not to say that all families with an absentee parent produce problem kids, but it should make one stop and think about the consequences that bad parenting choices (the willful ones)usually bring as a result