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 Divorce and Fatherhood Statistics
 

61% of all child abuse is committed by biological mothers
25% of all child abuse is committed by natural fathers

Statistical Source: Current DHHS report on nationwide Child Abuse

79.6% of custodial mothers receive a support award
29.9% of custodial fathers receive a support award
 

46.9% of non-custodial mothers totally default on support
26.9% of non-custodial fathers totally default on support
 

20.0% of non-custodial mothers pay support at some level
61.0% of non-custodial fathers pay support at some level
 

66.2% of single custodial mothers work less than full-time
10.2% of single custodial fathers work less than full-time
 

7.0% of single custodial mothers work more than 44 hours weekly
24.5% of single custodial fathers work more than 44 hours weekly
 

46.2% of single custodial mothers receive public assistance
20.8% of single custodial fathers receive public assistance

Statistical Source: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42 - U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services - Office of Income Security Policy

90.2% of fathers with joint custody pay all the support due
79.1% of fathers with visitation privileges pay all the support due
44.5% of fathers with no visitation pay all the support due
37.9% of fathers are denied any visitation
66.0% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to inability to pay

Statistical Source: 1988 Census "Child Support and Alimony: 1989 Series P-60, No. 173 p. 6-7. and U.S. General Accounting Office Report" GAO/HRD-92-39FS January, 1992
 

50% of mothers see no value in the father's continued contact with his children.
--See "Surviving the Breakup" by Joan Berlin Kelly
 

40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the father's visitation to punish their ex-spouse.
--See "Frequency of Visitation...." by Stanford Braver, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
 

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes
--U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census
 

85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes
--Center for Disease Control
 

80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes
--Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26
 

71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes
--National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools
 

70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes
--U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report Sept., 1988
 

85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home
--Fulton County Georgia jail populations & Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992
 

Translated, this means that children from a fatherless home are:
 

  • 5 times more likely to commit suicide
  • 32 times more likely to run away
  • 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
  • 14 times more likely to commit rape
  • 9 times more likely to drop out of school
  • 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances
  • 9 times more likely to end up in a state operated institution
  • 20 times more likely to end up in prison

  There are: 11,268,000 total U.S. custodial mothers and 2,907,000 total U.S. custodial fathers --Current Population Reports, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Series P-20, No. 458, 1991

  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." Source: Carol W. Metzler, et al. "The Social Context for Risky Sexual Behavior Among Adolescents", Journal of Behavioral Medicine 17 (1994).

  "Fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy, and criminality." Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health Statistics, Survey on Child Health, Washington, DC, 1993.

 

Here are some figures about children from U.S. households with an absent dad.
* 43 percent of U.S. children
* 90 percent of homeless and runaway children
* 80 percent of rapists motivated with displaced anger
* 71 percent of pregnant teenagers
* 63 percent of youth suicides
* 85 percent of children who exhibit behavioral disorders
* 90 percent of adolescent repeat arsonists
* 71 percent of high school dropouts
* 75 percent of adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers
* 70 percent of juveniles in state operated institutions
* 85 percent of youths in prison
* Boys and girls with absent fathers are: twice as likely to drop out of high school; twice as likely to end up in jail; four times more likely to need help for emotional or behavioral problems.
-- Source: Fathers Day DC, www.fathersdaydc.org/fddcstatistics.htm
and materials from National Principals Association Report on the State
of High Schools, U.S. Census, Department of Health and Human Services,
Center of Disease Control, U.S.Department of Justice
 

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