what do you think about this in the light of this information
Boys from a fatherless home are:
* 14 times more likely to commit rape
* 10 times more likely to abuse chemicals
85% of all children who exhibit behavioral disorders are from fatherless homes.
90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
85% of all youths in prison come from fatherless homes.
Nearly 75% of children living in one parent families will experience poverty before they turn eleven, compared with 20% of two parent families.
Children from single parent families suffer more psychiatric illness.
These figures await further verification from future research. They need have only a grain of truth in them, however, to be highly disturbing.
Source: Rex McCann On their own: Boys growing up underfathered Finch Publishing, Sydney, 2000, page 47, 48
2006-09-03
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