June 25th, 2010
Children who are raised in fatherless homes account for the following:
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63% of youth suicides. (Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services, Bureau of the Census).
71% of pregnant teenagers. (Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services)
90% of all homeless and runaway children.
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988)
85% of all children that exhibit behavioural disorders. (Source: Centre for Disease Control).
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger. (Source: Criminal Justice & Behaviour, Vol. 14, p. 403-26, 1978).
71% of all high school dropouts. (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools).
75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centres. (Source: Rainbows for all Gods’ Children).
85% of all youths sitting in prisons. (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992).
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For the record, that 85% of all youths sitting in prison seems low. I remember talking to a lot of former prisoners and they tell me one thing everyone has in common is nobody has a father. I have seen other statistics where the figure is well over 90%, but too busy right now to dig for them. So for now, we’ll go with the 85% figure.
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Thanks R for pretty much supplying this post
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ZS– your old friend from Chico, Rob here. idk about your above statistics, but actually my father is a total waste of flesh and when he basically left my mom to her own devices (after epically failing on the whole custody issue; yet winning on the child-support issue, he was required to pay such a small amount, yet he never paid).
Anyway: email me.
-r
ps: point is, some dads are just as well lost.
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ack! a dangling sentence … when he left, he was doing me a favor, is what I was going to say.
-r
PS: Sorry.
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that is telling indeed. wow, just wow.
ZS I have to admit my MILs partners son has just been released from a boys home because he turned 18 and he was home for literally 6 (six) days before he flipped out on her and now he’s back in a jail cell.. But this time its a real jail cell and I hope he realizes what is out there in front of him..
they want to say he has a brain problem because his mohter was beaten when she was pregnant with him but come on
I don’t think that is the whole truth, and I could go into finding statistics. But I’d be willing to bet that people with horrid fathers make up more of those ratios then you’d think.
Generally speaking I think a two parent home is better for a child. There is a lot of stress to raise a child, and two people who work together are better than one who struggles (no matter if a male or female). But then, there is always the exception to the rule. And the exception lays with the actions/reactions of one or both parents. Sometimes, the single course is far healthier.
And again, in the istatistic, it is showing the criminal activity.. not the victim. Flip that around and you will unfortunately see that having a male around is not such a happy thing. (not that I am anti-male, I am anti-asshat.)
Rob - There are exceptions to every generalization. I’ve met white folk before who didn’t look silly dancing. One day, I’ll even meet an Asian who can drive.
Lime - ‘Tis.
Tweety - Yeah, excuses only get one so far. There comes a time in one’s life when one has to take responsibility and stop blaming the past.
Xmichra - Of course it’s not the whole truth. There are bad fathers. There are kids who are better off without their fathers.
Statistically though, kids are better off with fathers. From experience, boys without dads tend to be “cartoon males.”
And when I was single, dating girls without fathers was a nightmare. They often wanted me to play their dad. No. I don’t play that role in a sexual relationship. That’s gross. If that’s someone else’s fantasy, well, more power to them. It’s not mine.
I grew up in a two parent family. My dad had issues that haunted him due to things he witnessed in WW II. He drank heavily, and even chased my mom down the street shooting at her. Still he taught me the values that form the core of my code of ethics.
I don’t know how I would have turned out had he been out of the picture but even with all the problems in my home, I still turned out pretty well.
So I do think having a dad around is a good thing.
As counterintuitive as it may seem to the save-the-children crowd, the research unambiguously indicates that even in cases of physical and sexual abuse, outcomes are better when children are left with their parents instead of being removed from the phone. Contrary to popular belief, it is better to have a bad father than no father.
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