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how can i order clomid online The Effects of Fatherlessness on Children
- Fatherless daughters are 111 percent more likely to have children as teenagers.
- Fatherless daughters are 164 percent more likely to give birth to an illegitimate child.
- Fatherless daughters are 92 percent more likely to fail in their own marriages.
- Fatherless men are 35 percent more likely to experience marital failure.
- Fatherless children are twice as likely to drop out of high school.
- Fatherless children are failing school not because they are intellectually or physically impaired, but because they are emotionally incapacitated.
- In schools across the nation, principals are reporting a dramatic rise in agressive, acting out behaviour, especially among boys who live in single parent homes.
- Fatherless children are 50 percent more likely to have learning disabilities.
- Fatherless children are from 100 to 200 percent more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems according to The National Center on Health Statistics.
- Fatherless young adults are twice as likely to need psychological help.
- Fatherless sons are 300 percent more likely to be incarcerated in state juvenile institutions.
- 70 percent of all young men incarcerated in the US come from fatherless homes.
- Fatherless daughters are 53 percent more likely to get married in their teenage years.
- The most reliable predictor of crime is neither poverty nor race, but growing up fatherless.
- More than 70 percent of all juveniles in state reform institutions come from fatherless homes.