85% of Youths in Prison Grew UP in Fatherless Homes

[pf450lz]

(Because only a portion of each age group grew up in a fatherless home,) these statistics translate to mean that children from fatherless homes are:

• 5 times more likely to commit suicide
• 32 times more likely to run away
• 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
• 14 times more likely to commit rape
• 9 times more likely to drop out of high school
• 10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances
• 9 times more likely to end up in a state-operated institution
• 20 times more likely to end up in prison.

boys cannot live following their silly noses like wimyn can as the society expects men to perform not just be a body that puts out;

unfortunatley the boys have acquired theirs mothers life skills and slack n idle attitudes and the sense of entitlement that most wimyn have (layabout rip off artist)


there is a negative attitude nowdays anyway to male students so what boy can beat the system loaded agin them eg Duke Lacrosse

I disagree with your notion that most women have a sense of entitlement. Making blanket statements in regards to gender is dangerous, and should be avoided. I also think that it's offensive to make remarks like that about single mothers as being a single parent is an extremely difficult job, when most are simply trying their best. This should be respected.

I also disagree that there is a negative attitude towards male students. Affluent white students are doing fine, and most students perform better in most topics than previous generations did. Socioeconomic factors are more likely to affect academic success.

[Unregistered]

In reply to RebelliousVanilla, it should be pointed out that, assuming these statistics are adequate, there might be a genuine need to look at motherless homes. For instance:

The website quotes that "90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes"; in the extreme, 10% of homeless and runaway children would come from motherless homes. It is not far-fetched to me that the ratio of fatherless-to-motherless homes would be 9:1. Therefore, if the ratio of children running away from fatherless homes were close to 9:1, it would indicate that almost all children who ran away originated from single-parent homes. One needs to know the distribution of family systems from which runaway / homeless children originate, as well as the distribution of these family systems in the general population, before drawing any conclusions.

[Unregistered]

That is a good point that you brought up about the ratio of fatherless-to-motherless homes being 9:1. I would agree to that and I am sure in some cases there may be inaccuracies caused by this ratio not being considered. However, if 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes, the point is not that in the extreme 10% comes from motherless homes but that, assuming that no children runaway from motherless homes, only 10% come from homes in which both parents are present. That being said, the probability a child from a two-parent home is to become homeless or a runaway is greatly decreased.

[Unregistered]

Any kid raised by a single parent has a depressing life. For instance, I realize how much of a influence both my parents had on me and I have to say that neither would have done a great job raising me by himself/herself.

That's why I believe in joint custodies. I mean, I hope that people are mature enough to set aside their differences and work together for their kids.

It is obvious by ur remark that you dont have any children of your own. I am a single mother and alot of my friends are to and i have to say none of our children want for anything, sometimes its better to be from a single parent family than have the father coming in and out of the childs life all the time. Also is it better for the child if the father or mother is abusing drugs or alcohol or gambling all there money away. my child is the most happiest child ever n it takes someone who doesnt have children or understand children to think that coming from a one parent family is depressing.. By the way joint custody doesn't always benefit that child. you should really look up your facts before making comments like the one you made..

[FloatyBoaty]

It is obvious by ur remark that you dont have any children of your own. I am a single mother and alot of my friends are to and i have to say none of our children want for anything, sometimes its better to be from a single parent family than have the father coming in and out of the childs life all the time. Also is it better for the child if the father or mother is abusing drugs or alcohol or gambling all there money away. my child is the most happiest child ever n it takes someone who doesnt have children or understand children to think that coming from a one parent family is depressing.. By the way joint custody doesn't always benefit that child. you should really look up your facts before making comments like the one you made..

And it is obvious by your comment that you do not care about anyone but yourself.

[Rof L Mao Esq]

I've been around single mothers all my life. The impression most have left me with is that they intentionally choose men who will be uncommitted to them, that they are as often the unfaithful ones or the ones with substance abuse problems, that they have more than a hand in driving men off and then saying the man "couldn't commit", and that being single mothers and therefore legends in their own minds is the first thing they have ever liked about themselves.

All this boo-hooing about how hard it is, is mostly for public consumption. Get any of them one on one, and in my experience most of them wear it as a badge of honor, and associate it somehow with how their own mothers were downtrodden by society and their husbands, or else they were raised by single moms themselves and are in a state of permanent war with them where the only way they can prove what rotten parents their moms were is to do it by themselves as a gesture of how they should have been raised.

The only single mothers I have ever known whose point of view I have any respect for are the ones who take some of the culpability for the absence of a father upon themselves, and this has been by far the exception and not the rule. Absent humility and basic personal accountability for one's half of a relationship, any man trying to get close faces such a wall of self-justifying bitchdom combined with unconscionably clueless and permissive parenting, that the status of single is guaranteed to remain intact.

If women WANT a man to be a father to their children, they have to start with treating him as their equal, and women increasingly act as if men are beneath them, that men's ideas about parenting are stupid and dangerous, and that everything a man does has to be approved by his mother-in-law.

And plenty of women set out to be mothers, never having the slightest intent of including the father. I know of whole families of generations of women where this is practically tradition. Plus the kids i grew up with whose moms were single always went around bragging about how much they got away with and how easily their moms were manipulated.

I don't know if it was Bill Clinton angling for liberal votes or what that started all this myth-making about single mothers, but in my lifetime all I've seen is a continual catastrophe.

[Popadibs]

It is obvious by ur remark that you dont have any children of your own. I am a single mother and alot of my friends are to and i have to say none of our children want for anything, sometimes its better to be from a single parent family than have the father coming in and out of the childs life all the time. Also is it better for the child if the father or mother is abusing drugs or alcohol or gambling all there money away. my child is the most happiest child ever n it takes someone who doesnt have children or understand children to think that coming from a one parent family is depressing.. By the way joint custody doesn't always benefit that child. you should really look up your facts before making comments like the one you made..

You state that joint custody doesn't always benefit the child but neither does single parenting. As a matter of fact, single mothers usually don't benefit the child.

You're not every single mother (technically) and every single father does not "come in and out" of a child's life. If a father only has visitation "rights" that aren't even enforced how do you expect him to be a part of his child's life?

Some fathers are no good but so are some mothers. Some fathers are very good and so are some mothers. Fathers or mothers (but you might as well say fathers since they're the ones excluded custody) don't always abuse drugs or alcohol or gamble all the money away.

You need to look up your facts.

Also, one doesn't have to have children to know that it is better for children to have both and loving father and a loving mother. You don't have to experience something to have an opinion on it.

[shaazam]

single mothers are the desired endresult of the collectivist social engineering machination agin the nuclear family!

feminits hate fathers because they head the family - the head should be Centrelink right! with momma as the client

centrelink will sheet home all of poppas sins to him ; the first being impregnating precious; for this he must pay and pay and pay