America Needs Dads More Than Ever - it's true.

America is in the midst of a fatherhood crisis. As of 2021 34 percent of kids are raised in a single-parent home. That number has more than doubled since 1968. In 83 percent of these homes, the parent who is absent is the father. That amounts to more than 18.3 million kids living in homes without a dad.

Single mothers do heroic work, working multiple jobs, raising children on their own, and maintaining order in the home. Still, the absence of a father has serious consequences for both children and the community.

The difficulties stemming from growing up without a dad are legion. Kids who grow up in a home without a father are four times more likely to grow up in poverty and twice as likely to drop out of school, and daughters are seven times more likely to become pregnant as a teenager.

 

 

On perhaps no other area of life, however, is there a greater impact than on delinquency and criminality.

Children who come from fatherless homes make up a substantial majority of gang members and are more likely to engage in delinquent behaviors. A state-by-state analysis by the Heritage Foundation found that a 10 percent increase in the percentage of children living in single-parent homes leads to a 17 percent increase in juvenile crime.

These children are also three times more likely to end up incarcerated than children from intact families. 

The same principle holds true for school shooters. A 2018 analysis found that 75 percent of the 25 mass school shootings since Columbine were perpetuated by shooters with abusive or absent fathers. 

The jerkoff kid who shot all those people  in Uvalde, Texas, reportedly complained frequently that his absent father didn’t love him.

Here's a really interesting take on this subject from a very surprising source - click on this link:

    Are Dads as Essential as Moms?

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