Facts
The Good
✓ Youth whose fathers are
actively engaged in their lives do
significantly better academically
than those pre-teens with
uninvolved fathers.
✓ Highly involved fathers increase
their children’s economic and
educational attainment.
✓Mothers in two-parent households
report fewer behavior problems
among children with involved
fathers compared to children with
detached fathers.
✓Fathers who are involved help
reduce emotional stress for
teenagers making the transition to
adulthood.
The Bad
✓ There are over 24 million fatherless youth in
America.
✓ 93% of prison inmates have grown up
fatherless
✓ 90% of youth that are homeless, runaways
and arsonists have grown up fatherless
✓ 85% of children who exhibit behavioral
disorders such as ADD have grown up
fatherless
✓ 80% of rapists have grown up fatherless
✓ 75% of youth in drug rehabs have grown up
fatherless
✓ 71% of pregnant teenagers and high school
dropouts have grown up fatherless
✓ 63% of youth who have committed or
attempted suicide have grown up fatherless
✓ 72% of the U.S. population, says
fatherlessness is the most significant family
or social problem facing America.
The Ugly
IN THE NEXT 25 TO 30 YEARS THERE IS PROJECTED TO BE 72 MILLION FATHERLESS YOUTH IN THE U.S.