The Magnitude

High rates of divorce and out-of-wedlock births have created a generation of fatherless boys...

• The Arizona % of kids growing up in single family homes is 38% vs the USA Average of 32%.

• One in three children are born to unmarried parents. [i]

• An estimated 24.7 million children do not live with their biological father. [ii]

• 43% of urban teens live away from their father. [iii]

• 42% of fathers fail to see their children at all after divorce. [iv]

THE CONSEQUENCES

A recent Newsweek article “The Trouble with Boys” states “one of the most reliable predictors of whether a boy will succeed or fail in high school rests on a single question: does he have a man in his life to look up to? Too often, the answer is no.”

• 85% of youths in prisons grew up in a fatherless home. [vii]

• 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes. [viii]

• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. [x]

• 90% of homeless children are from fatherless homes. [xii]

• 85% of children with behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes. [xiii]

• Fatherless boys are 4 times more likely to need help for emotional or behavioral problems. [xv]

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