Why be a spiritual parent? Part 2

From Father’s Rights by Jeffrey M. Leving and Kenneth A. Dachman, Basic Books, 1997. ISBN 0-465-023629-2

Facts compiled by the National Fatherhood Initiative: Updated

200%	Fatherless children are twice as likely to drop out of school then their classmates who live with two parents
72%	Seventy-two percent of all teenage murderers grew up without fathers
1100%	Fatherless children are eleven times more likely then are children from intact families to exhibit violent behavior.
80%	Eighty percent of adolescents in psychiatric hospitals come from fatherless homes.
70%	Seventy percent of the kids now incarcerated in juvenile corrections facilities grew up in a single-parent environment
75%	Three out of four teen suicides occur in single-parent families
164%	Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, the daughters of single parents are 164-percent more likely to become pregnant before marriage
53%	Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, 53 percent more likely to marry as teenagers
92%	Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, 92 percent more likely to dissolve their own marriages
900%	The absence of a biological father increases by 900 percent a daughter’s vulnerability to rape and sexual abuse (often these assaults are committed by stepfathers or the boyfriends of custodial mothers).
<	Children whose fathers are absent consistently score lower than the norm in reading and math tests.
>	Children who live apart from their fathers experience more accidents and a higher rate of chronic asthma, headaches, and speech defects.

Facts compiled by the Department of Justice:

63%	of youth suicides are from fatherless homes
90%	of all homeless and runaway youths are from fatherless homes.
85%	of children who exhibit behavioral disorders are from fatherless homes.
71%	of high school dropouts are from fatherless homes.
70%	of youths in State institutions are from fatherless homes.
75%	of adolescent patients in substance abuse centers are from fatherless homes.
85%	of rapists motivated by displaced anger are from fatherless homes.

Fatherless
America
(David Blankenhorn) states:

“Fatherlessness is the most destructive trend of our generation.”

U.S. Vice President Al Gore declared in a 1997 speech:

“absent fathers are behind most social woes.”

FBI statistics:

“a missing father is a more reliable predictor of criminal activity than race, environment, or poverty.”

National

Center
for Health Statistics (1995):

200% A child living with a divorced mother is almost twice as likely as a children living with both parents to repeat a grade of school, contract anemia, and suffer from intestinal distress, bed-wetting, and stuttering.

From The Father Connection by Josh McDowell. Broadman & Hoffman, 1996. ISBN 0-8054-6094-2


Johns

Hopkins

University
study:

60% ”young white, teenage girls living in fatherless homes… were 60 percent more likely to have premarital intercourse than those living in two-parent homes.”

Dr. Loren Moshen, of the National Institute of Mental Health, analyzed
U.S.
census figures:

The absence of a father is a stronger factor than poverty in contributing to juvenile delinquency.

A group of Yale behavioral scientists studied delinquency in forty-eight cultures around the world:

Crime rates were highest among adults who as children had been raised solely by women
.

Dr. Martin Deutsch:

A father’s presence and conversation, especially at dinner time, stimulates a child to perform better at school.

Father: the Figure and the Force (Christopher Anderson):

A study of 7000 women working in topless bars and strip clubs: “Most of these women conceded that they were probably looking for the male attention that they had never gotten during their childhood.
”

White House Paper (October 25, 1984): 7-8 “Changes in the American Family” by Armand Nicholi Jr.:

“An emotionally or physically absent father contributes to a child’s (1) low motivation for achievement; (2) inability to defer immediate gratification for later rewards; (3) low self-esteem; and (4) susceptibility to group influence and to juvenile delinquency.”

Who are your Spiritual Sons?!    For more imformation go to “America’s Stolen Children”