Deuteronomy 23:2 - Fatherlessness is the only sin carried down to the 10^th generation, it’s the only one… here is why they need you!

EFFECTS OF FATHERLESSNESS (US DATA)

1) BEHAVIORAL DISORDERS/ RUNAWAYS/ HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS/CHEMICAL

ABUSERS/ SUICIDES

85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from

fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control) 90% of all

homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes

(Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census) 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source:

National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.)

75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from

fatherless homes (Source: Rainbows for all God's Children.) 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)

2) JUVENILE DELINQUENCY/ CRIME/ GANGS

80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes

(Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978) 70% of

juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes

(Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988) 85% of all

youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home

(Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections

1992)

California has the nation's highest juvenile incarceration rate and the

nation's highest juvenile unemployment rate. Vincent Schiraldi,

Executive Director, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, "What

Hallinan's Victory Means," San Francisco Chronicle ( 12/28/95).

These statistics translate to mean that children from a fatherless home

are:

5 times more likely to commit suicide.

32 times more likely to run away.

20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders.

14 times more likely to commit rape

9 times more likely to drop out of high school.

10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances.

9 times more likely to end up in a state-operated institution.

20 times more likely to end up in prison.

Juveniles have become the driving force behind the nation's alarming

increases in violent crime, with juvenile arrests for murder, rape,

robbery and aggravated assault growing sharply in the past decade as

pistols and drugs became more available, and expected to continue at the

same alarming rate during the next decade. "Justice Dept. Issues Scary

Report on Juvenile Crime," San Francisco Chronicle ( 9/8/95). "Crime Wave

Forecast With Teenager Boom," San Francisco Chronicle ( 2/15/95).

Criminal behavior experts and social scientists are finding intriguing

evidence that the epidemic of youth violence and gangs is related to the

breakdown of the two-parent family. "New Evidence That Quayle Was Right:

Young Offenders Tell What Went Wrong at Home," San Francisco Chronicle

( 12/9/94).

3) TEENAGE PREGNANCY

"Daughters of single parents are 53% more likely to marry as teenagers,

164% more likely to have a premarital birth, and 92% more likely to

dissolve their own marriages. All these intergenerational consequences

of single motherhood increase the likelihood of chronic welfare

dependency." Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Atlantic Monthly (April 1993).

Daughters of single parents are 2.1 times more likely to have children

during their teenage years than are daughters from intact families. The

Good Family Man, David Blankenhorn.

71% of teenage pregnancies are to children of single parents. U.S. Dept.

of Health and Human Services.

4) CHILD ABUSE

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services states that there were

more than 1,000,000 documented child abuse cases in 1990. In 1983, it

found that 60% of perpetrators were women with sole custody. Shared

parenting can significantly reduce the stress associated with sole

custody, and reduce the isolation of children in abusive situations by

allowing both parents' to monitor the children's health and welfare and

to protect them.

5) POVERTY

"The National Fatherhood Institute reports that 18 million children live

in single-parent homes. Nearly 75% of American children living in

single-parent families will experience poverty before they turn 11. Only

20% in two-parent families will experience poverty." Melinda Sacks,

"Fatherhood in the 90's: Kids of absent fathers more "at risk"," San

Jose Mercury News ( 10/29/95).

"The feminization of poverty is linked to the feminization of custody,

as well as linked to lower earnings for women. Greater opportunity for

education and jobs through shared parenting can help break the cycle."

David Levy, Ed., The Best Parent is Both Parents (1993).

6) KIDNAPPING

Family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-family abductions of

200-300. The parental abductions were attributed to the parents'

disenchantment with the legal system. David Levy, Ed., The Best Parent

is Both Parents (1993), citing a report from the U.S. Department of

Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice (May 1990).