Fatherlessness - It's Official: The Experiment has Failed

Some sobering stats I found at Fathers for Life. Borrowed for your thoughts. For the best part of thirty years we have been conducting a vast experiment with the family, and now the results are in: the decline of the two-parent, married-couple family has resulted in poverty, ill-health, educational failure, unhappiness, anti-social behavior, isolation and social exclusion for thousands of women, men and children. Nearly 2 of every 5 children in America do not live with their fathers. [US News and World Report, February 27, 1995, p.39] 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. [U. S. D.H.H.S. Bureau of the Census] 70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes [U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept., 1988]

90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes. 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. [Center for Disease Control] 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes. [Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14 p. 403-26] 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. [National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools] 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home. [Fulton County Georgia Jail Populations and Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992] From Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family By Rebecca O'Neill; Sept. 2002, CIVITAS