Fatherless Family Affects on Children and Society

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The Experiment

     

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The Experiment

The Results: How does the Fatherless Family Affect Adults, Children and Society?

Is the married two-parent family a thing of the past?

 

Fewer children live with both their mother and their father

Routes into the fatherless family

 

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Divorce

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Births outside marriage

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Changes in marriage and cohabitation

 

The Experiment

Children living without their biological fathers

 

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Are more likely to live in poverty and deprivation

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Have more trouble in school

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Tend to have more trouble getting along with others

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Have higher risk of health problems

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Are at greater risk of suffering physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.

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Are more likely to run away from home

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Teenagers living without their biological fathers

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Are more likely to experience problems with sexual health

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Are more likely to become teenage parents

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Are more likely to offend

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Are more likely to smoke

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Are more likely to drink alcohol

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Are more likely to take drugs

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Are more likely to play truant from school

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Are more likely to be excluded from school

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Are more likely to leave school at 16

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Are more likely to have adjustment problems

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Young adults who grew up not living with their biological fathers

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Are less likely to attain qualifications

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Are more likely to experience unemployment

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Are more likely to have low incomes

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Are more likely be on income support

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Are more likely to experience homelessness

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Are more likely to be caught offending and go to jail

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Are more likely to suffer from long term emotional and psychological problems

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Are more likely to develop health problems

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Tend to enter partnerships earlier and more often as a cohabitation

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Are more likely to divorce or dissolve their cohabiting unions

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Are more likely to have children outside marriage or outside any partnership


Effects on the Social Fabric

 

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Increased crime and violence

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Decreased community ties

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A growing ‘divorce culture’

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Cycle of Fatherlessness

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Dependence on state welfare


Lone mothers

 

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Are poorer

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Are more likely to suffer from stress, depression, and other emotional and psychological problems

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Have more health problems

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May have more problems interacting with their children

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Non-resident biological fathers

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Are at risk of losing contact with their children

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Are more likely to have health problems and engage in high-risk behaviour

Evaluating the Results
The weight of evidence indicates that the traditional family based upon a married father and mother is still the best environment for raising children, and it forms the soundest basis for the wider society.

Source: http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/experiments.php

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