The Risks To Which Our Courts Expose Our Children

Despite the convincing evidence, our judges rountinely condemn children of divorced parents to much higher rates of personal and social problems:

Children from fatherless homes account for:  

63% of youth suicides. (Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services, Bureau of the Census).

71% of pregnant teenagers. (Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services)

90% of all homeless and runaway children. (Source: US Dept. of Health & Human Services)

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

85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders. (Source: Center for Disease Control).

80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger. (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26, 1978).

71% of all high school dropouts. (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools).

75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers. (Source: Rainbows for all God`s Children).

85% of all youths sitting in prisons. (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992).

In addition, children of divorced families who do NOT have regular and meaningful contact with their father denied are at much higher risk for incarceration (jail), psychiatric illness, child abuse and even death.

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