In America, 33.5% (24.35 million) children live absent their bio-dad

• 28% live w/o a biological, adoptive, or stepfather present (Doesn’t include children living w/ widowed mothers)

• Marital Status: the strongest predictor of father presence/father absence. Cohabiting parents: 3X’s greater fatherless; unmarried, non-cohabiting: 4X’s greater fatherless

• Compared to living w/ both parents, living in a single-parent home doubles the risk of physical, emotional, or education abuse

• What magnifies the risk of sexual abuse for children is not the presence of a married father, but his ABSENCE

• Boys born to an unwed mother was 2.5 times more likely to end up in prison, than those reared in intact, two-parent households

• Boys whose parents split during his teenage years are 1.5 times more likely to eventually become imprisoned.

• Remarriage made things worse: Boys living in stepparent family were almost 3 times more likely to face incarceration. In contrast, boys living with their single fathers were no more likely to become incarcerated than those living with both parents

• Research is absolutely clear…the one human being most capable of curbing the antisocial aggression of a boy is his biological father

Fatherlessness has a direct correlation to:

• Poverty
• Crime rate/imprisonment
• Increased child abuse
• School performance
• Physical & Mental illness