The Importance of Dads in an Increasingly Fatherless America

Studies have found that children raised without a father are:

• At a higher risk of having behavioral problems.
• Four times more likely to live in poverty.
• More likely to be incarcerated in their lifetime.
• Twice as likely to never graduate high school.
• At a seven times higher risk of teen pregnancy.
• More vulnerable to abuse and neglect.
• More likely to abuse drugs and alcohol.
• Twice as likely to be obese.

From education to personal health to career success, children who lack a father find themselves at a disadvantage to their peers raised in a two-parent household.

There is a “father absence crisis in America,” according to National Fatherhood Initiative, and the results are sobering.

Virginia Allen

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