Due to the high divorce rates, children growing up in single parent (mostly mothers only) homes and children being ignored or subjected to the most filthy and degrading life-styles of parents, statistics are ever increasingly showing that children are progressively worse off. In South Africa, due to the large number of parents dying of aids, the figures are devastating. The following statistics account for the US:
Children from fatherless homes account for:
63% of youth suicides. Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services, Bureau of the Census
71% of pregnant teenagers.
Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services
90% of all homeless and runaway children.
Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes
Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders.
Source: Center for Disease Control
Where's Daddy? The Mythologies Behind Custody-Access-Support
90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes. U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the
Census.
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes. Criminal Justice &
Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.
60% of repeat rapists grew up without fathers. Raymond A. Knight and Robert A. Prentky, "The
Developmental Antecednts of Adult Adaptations of Rapist Sub-Types," Criminal Justice and
Behavior, Vol 14, Dec., 1987, p 403-426.
71% of pregnant teenagers lack a father. US Dept. of Health & Human Services press release,
Friday, March 26, 1999.
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. US D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census.
85% of children who exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. Center for Disease
Control.
90% of adolescent repeat arsonists live with only their mother. Wray Herbert, "Dousing the
Kindlers," Psychology Today, January, 1985, p.28.
71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. National Principals Association Report
on the State of High Schools.
75% of adolescent patients in chemical abuse canters come from fatherless homes. Rainbows for all
God`s Children.
70% of juveniles in state operated institutions have no father. US Dept. of Justice, Special Report,
Sept. 1988.
85% of youths in prisons grew up in a fatherless home. Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas
Dept. of Corrections, 1992.
75% of prisoners grew up without a father. Daniel Amneus, The Garbage Generation, Alhambra,
CA: Primrose Press, 1990.
Fatherless boys and girls are: twice as likely to drop out of high school; twice as likely to end up in
jail; four times more likely to need help for emotional or behavioral problems. US D.H.H.S. news
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fatherless households http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/fatherless.html
release, March 26, 1999.
43% of US children live without their father. US Department of Census.
Two years after divorce, 51% of children in sole mother custody homes only see their father once or
twice a year, or never. Guidubaldi, 1989; Guidubaldi, 1988; Guidubaldi, Perry, & Nastasi, 1987.
42% of fathers fail to see their children at all after divorce. Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. and Christine
Winguist Nord, "Parenting Apart," Journal of Marriage and the Family, vol 47, no. 4, November,
1985.
90% of father disengagement is caused by obstruction of access by a custodial parent anxious to
break the father-child ties. Kruk, 1992, cited by Prof. John Guidubaldi in his Minority Report and
Policy Recommendations of the US Commission on Child & Family Welfare, US Code Citat ion: 42
USC 12301, 1996. Same cause identified by Braver, Wolchik, & Sandler, 1985, without incidence
values.
Evaluating the Results
The weight of evidence indicates that the traditional family based upon a married father and mother is still the
best environment for raising children, and it forms the soundest basis for the wider society.
For many mothers, fathers and children, the ‘fatherless family’ has meant poverty, emotional heartache, ill
health, lost opportunities, and a lack of stability. The social fabric – once considered flexible enough to
incorporate all types of lifestyles – has been stretched and strained. Although a good society should tolerate
people’s right to live as they wish, it must also hold adults responsible for the consequences of their actions. To do this, society must not shrink from evaluating the results of these actions. As J.S. Mill argued, a good society must share the lessons learnt from its experience and hold up ideals to which all can aspire.
‘Human beings owe to each other help to distinguish the better from the worse, and encouragement to choose the former and avoid the latter. They should be forever stimulating each other to increased exercise of their higher faculties and increased direction of their feelings and aims towards wise instead of foolish, elevating instead of degrading, objects and contemplations.’
-John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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