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Statistics
- 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes
- 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes
- 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes.
- 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes
- 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes
- 70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes
- 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home
Translated, this means 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 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
- Boys are more likely than girls to commit crimes and to be a victim of violent crime. The Department of Justice estimates that more than 90 percent of gang members in large cities are boys. And by the age 18, boys are 17 times more likely than girls to be in jail or prison
Daughters of single parents are:
- 53% more likely to marry as teenagers,
- 111% more likely to have children as teenagers,
- 164% more likely to be a single parent
- 92% more likely to divorce if they even marry.
These statistics come from
- Center for Disease Control
- U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census
- Criminal Justice and Behavior
- Vol. 14, p. 403-26, --National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report Sept., 1988
- Fulton County Georgia jail populations & Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992
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