DOWNFALL OF SINGLE PARENTS

Single Parent Families -- THE DESTRUCTION OF THE FAMILY MODEL HAS LED TO SOCIETAL DOWNFALL

>72 Percent Of Black Kids Raised By Single Parent, 25% Overall In U.S:
http://newsone.com/1195075/children-single-parents-u-s-american/

>70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes
(Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988)
http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=3723
http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/SOSPI91.PDF

>Seventy-two percent of adolescent murderers grew up without fathers. Sixty percent of America’s rapists grew up the same way.
Source: D. Cornell (et al.), Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 5. 1987. And N. Davidson, “Life Without Father,” Policy Review. 1990.

>There is racial variation in the proportion of families headed by a single parent: 22% for white, 57% for black, and 33% for Hispanic families:
http://family.jrank.org/pages/1574/Single-Parent-Families-Demographic-Trends.html

>Sexual activity. In a study of 700 adolescents, researchers found that “compared to families with two natural parents living in the home, adolescents from single-parent families have been found to engage in greater and earlier sexual activity.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7966262

-63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)
-85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)
-80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.)
-71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.)
-75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes (Source: Rainbows for all God`s 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 youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)

>Fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy, and criminality.
http://divorcesupport.about.com/od/equalparenting/f/equalparenting1.htm


>Drinking problems. Teenagers living in single-parent households are more likely to abuse alcohol and at an earlier age compared to children reared in two-parent households
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7990469

>Sexual abuse. A study of 156 victims of child sexual abuse found that the majority of the children came from disrupted or single-parent homes; only 31 percent of the children lived with both biological parents. Although stepfamilies make up only about 10 percent of all families, 27 percent of the abused children lived with either a stepfather or the mother’s boyfriend.
http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Child_sexual_abuse_victims_and_their_tre.html?id=kkNHAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
https://www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=113766


>Child Abuse. Researchers in Michigan determined that “49 percent of all child abuse cases are committed by single mothers.”
Source: Joan Ditson and Sharon Shay, “A Study of Child Abuse in Lansing, Michigan,” Child Abuse and Neglect, 8 (1984):
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5r6f7y4qHpwC&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&ots=OrQxlhXRp-&dq=%22A+Study+of+Child+Abuse+in+Lansing,+Michigan,%22+Child+Abuse+and+Neglect

>Deadly predictions. A family structure index — a composite index based on the annual rate of children involved in divorce and the percentage of families with children present that are female-headed — is a strong predictor of suicide among young adult and adolescent white males.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0049089X84710039

>Fatherless children are at dramatically greater risk of suicide.
http://www.cpr-mn.org/Documents/Why%20JPC.pdf

>Suicidal Tendencies. In a study of 146 adolescent friends of 26 adolescent suicide victims, teens living in single-parent families are not only more likely to commit suicide but also more likely to suffer from psychological disorders, when compared to teens living in intact families.
http://www.amchp.org/Calendar/Documents/Father%20Factor%20in%20Children%27s%20Health%20Outline.pdf

>Confused identities. Boys who grow up in father-absent homes are more likely that those in father-present homes to have trouble establishing appropriate sex roles and gender identity.
Source: P.L. Adams, J.R. Milner, and N.A. Schrepf, Fatherless Children, New York, Wiley Press).

>Psychiatric Problems. In 1988, a study of preschool children admitted to New Orleans hospitals as psychiatric patients over a 34-month period found that nearly 80 percent came from fatherless homes.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3360725

>Emotional distress. Children living with a never-married mother are more likely to have been treated for emotional problems.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2135728?uid=3738032&uid=2&uid=4&sid=21102309386727

>Uncooperative kids. Children reared by a divorced or never-married mother are less cooperative and score lower on tests of intelligence than children reared in intact families. Statistical analysis of the behavior and intelligence of these children revealed “significant detrimental effects” of living in a female-headed household. Growing up in a female-headed household remained a statistical predictor of behavior problems even after adjusting for differences in family income.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7516849

>Unstable families, unstable lives. Compared to peers in two-parent homes, black children in single-parent households are more likely to engage in troublesome behavior, and perform poorly in school.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7956466

>Children from one-parent families tend to move more, have lower achievement, are less healthy, and are more often involved in disciplinary action than are students from two-parent families.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ234189&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ234189

>Divorce disorders. Children whose parents separate are significantly more likely to engage in early sexual activity, abuse drugs, and experience conduct and mood disorders. This effect is especially strong for children whose parents separated when they were five years old or younger.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7982863

>"Father hunger" often afflicts boys age one and two whose fathers are suddenly and permanently absent. Sleep disturbances, such as trouble falling asleep, nightmares, and night terrors frequently begin within one to three months after the father leaves home.
http://www.amchp.org/Calendar/Documents/Father%20Factor%20in%20Children%27s%20Health%20Outline.pdf

>Children of never-married mothers are more than twice as likely to have been treated for an emotional or behavioral problem.
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_10/sr10_178.pdf

>Poor and in trouble: A 1988 Department of Health and Human Services study found that at every income level except the very highest (over $50,000 a year), children living with never-married mothers were more likely than their counterparts in two-parent families to have been expelled or suspended from school, to display emotional problems, and to engage in antisocial behavior.
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://64.62.200.70/PERIODICAL/PDF/BrookingsRev-1993q4/14-18/

>Fatherless aggression: In a longitudinal study of 1,197 fourth-grade students, researchers observed “greater levels of aggression in boys from mother-only households than from boys in mother-father households.”
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8568079

>Act now, pay later: "Children from mother-only families have less of an ability to delay gratification and poorer impulse control (that is, control over anger and sexual gratification.) These children also have a weaker sense of conscience or sense of right and wrong."
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=56&page=370

>"The economic consequences of a [father’s] absence are often accompanied by psychological consequences, which include higher-than-average levels of youth suicide, low intellectual and education performance, and higher-than-average rates of mental illness, violence and drug use."
http://www.dlc.org/documents/Putting_Children_First_0990.pdf

>Expelled: Nationally, 15.3 percent of children living with a never-married mother and 10.7 percent of children living with a divorced mother have been expelled or suspended from school, compared to only 4.4 percent of children living with both biological parents.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ435505&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ435505

>Likeliest to succeed: Kids who live with both biological parents at age 14 are significantly more likely to graduate from high school than those kids who live with a single parent, a parent and step-parent, or neither parent.
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/search/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ453480&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ453480

>On their own: Kids living in single-parent homes or in step-families report lower educational expectations on the part of their parents, less parental monitoring of school work, and less overall social supervision than children from intact families.
http://www.unh.edu/ccrc/pdf/CV112.pdf

>Con garden: Forty-three percent of prison inmates grew up in a single-parent household — 39 percent with their mothers, 4 percent with their fathers — and an additional 14 percent lived in households without either biological parent. Another 14 percent had spent at last part of their childhood in a foster home, agency or other juvenile institution.
http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/SOSPI91.PDF

>Crime and poverty: The proportion of single-parent households in a community predicts its rate of violent crime and burglary, but the community’s poverty level does not.
http://jrc.sagepub.com/content/25/1/27.abstract?ijkey=8995c5cf3125bbb59cf751581b1c91e98a406215&keytype2=tf_ipsecsha

>The likelihood that a young male will engage in criminal activity doubles if he is raised without a father and triples if he lives in a neighborhood with a high concentration of single-parent families.
Source: A. Anne Hill, June O’Neill, “Underclass Behaviors in the United States,” CUNY, Baruch College. 1993

>Approximately 42 percent of all single mothers in the United States are on food stamps:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056864/Handout-nation-Food-stamp-map-America-reveals-hotspots-15-population-government-help.html

>Some single mothers hit by recent welfare cuts to parenting payments have turned to prostitution and strip clubs in order to keep a roof over their family’s head:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/political-news/single-mums-turn-to-brothels-and-stripping-20130120-2d0wn.html