The Equal Parenting bill will lower conflict and help women more easily get equal parenting without having to spend thousands of dollars in court fights. However, there is no denying that one of the greatest issues with unequal parenting under current law is that it has created a nation without fathers. The Stats and Facts of the negative effects of fatherlessness is shocking and heart wrenching and we MUST help our kids NOW!
Kids
Need Both and Mother and a Father in their lives EQUALLY.
The Facts show that Kids and Hurting and Dying due to Unequal Parenting and
Fatherlessness
- 63% of youth
suicides are from fatherless homes (US Dept. Of Health/Census) – 5 times
the average.
- 90% of all homeless
and runaway children are from fatherless homes – 32 times the average.
- 85% of all children
who show behavior disorders come from fatherless homes – 20 times the
average. (Center for Disease Control)
- 80% of rapists with
anger problems come from fatherless homes –14 times the average.
(Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26)
- 71% of all high
school dropouts come from fatherless homes – 9 times the average.
(National Principals Association Report)
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Father Factor in Drug and Alcohol Abuse –
Researchers at Columbia University found that children living in two-parent
household with a poor relationship with their father are 68% more likely to
smoke, drink, or use drugs compared to all teens in two-parent households.
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70% of youths in state-operated
institutions come from fatherless homes – 9 times the average. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Sept. 1988)
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85% of all youths in prison come from
fatherless homes – 20 times the average.
(Fulton Co. Georgia, Texas Dept. of Correction)
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Father Factor in Incarceration – Even
after controlling for income, youths in father-absent households still had
significantly higher odds of incarceration than those in mother-father families.
Youths who never had a father in the household experienced the highest odds. A
2002 Department of Justice survey of 7,000 inmates revealed that 39% of jail
inmates lived in mother-only households.
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Father Factor in Crime – A study of 109
juvenile offenders indicated that family structure significantly predicts
delinquency. Adolescents, particularly boys, in single-parent families were at
higher risk of status, property and person delinquencies. Moreover, students
attending schools with a high proportion of children of single parents are also
at risk. A study of 13,986 women in prison showed that more than half grew up
without their father. Forty-two percent grew up in a single-mother household
and sixteen percent lived with neither parent
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Father Factor in Child Abuse – Compared to
living with both parents, living in a single-parent home doubles the risk that
a child will suffer physical, emotional, or educational neglect. The overall
rate of child abuse and neglect in single-parent households is 27.3 children
per 1,000, whereas the rate of overall maltreatment in two-parent households is
15.5 per 1,000.
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Daughters of single parents without a
Father involved are 53% more likely to marry as teenagers, 711% more likely to
have children as teenagers, 164% more likely to have a pre-marital birth and
92% more likely to get divorced themselves.
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