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Are more likely to live in poverty and deprivation

Have more trouble in school

Tend to have more trouble getting along with others

Have higher risk of health problems

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

Are more likely to run away from home

Teenagers living without their biological fathers

Are more likely to experience problems with sexual health

Are more likely to become teenage parents

Are more likely to offend

Are more likely to smoke

Are more likely to drink alcohol

Are more likely to take drugs

Are more likely to play truant from school

Are more likely to be excluded from school

Are more likely to leave school at 16

Are more likely to have adjustment problems

Young adults who grew up not living with their biological fathers

Are less likely to attain qualifications

Are more likely to experience unemployment

Are more likely to have low incomes

Are more likely be on income support

Are more likely to experience homelessness

Are more likely to be caught offending and go to jail

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

Are more likely to develop health problems

Tend to enter partnerships earlier and more often as a cohabitation

Are more likely to divorce or dissolve their cohabiting unions

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

Increased crime and violence

Decreased community ties

A growing ‘divorce culture’

Cycle of Fatherlessness

Dependence on state welfare

Are poorer

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

Have more health problems

May have more problems interacting with their children

Non-resident biological fathers

Are at risk of losing contact with their children

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