"85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes
(U.S. Center for Disease Control);
90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes
(U.S. Bureau of the Census);
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes
(Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978);
70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes
(U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988);
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home
(Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992).
In fact, you can pick a social ill at random and you will find that the correlation with fatherlessness is clear and direct.
Depression.
Suicide.
Dropping out of school.
Teenage pregnancy.
Drug use.
In sum, fatherless children 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 mental institution;
- 20 times more likely to end up in prison(1).
Fatherless children are also, according to one British study, about 33 times more likely to be abused.
In 1983, the US Department of Health and Human Services found that 60% of child abuse is inflicted by mothers with sole custody of their children.
Almost all of the rest comes from other members of her entourage, especially boyfriends and second husbands."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/000610-9.htm

Proxy, I don't think today is the right day to demand the men explain why they keep leaving homes fatherless.

"Two-Thirds of the Time
It’s the wife who files for divorce in about two-thirds of divorce cases, at least among couples who have children. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the proportion has changed slightly over the years; for example, in 1975, approximately 72 percent of the divorces in the U.S. were filed by women, whereas by 1988, only about 65 percent were filed by women.

The Same throughout the 19th Century
A study reported in the American Law and Economics Review in 2000, "These Boots Are Made for Walking: Why Most Divorce Filers are Women" also showed that more recently, women file more than two-thirds of divorce cases in the US. Even though the individual states’ data vary somewhat and the numbers have fluctuated over time, throughout most of the 19th century about 60 percent of divorce filings were by women.

Moreover, in some of the states where no-fault divorce was introduced, over 70 percent of the divorce filings were by women. Among college-educated couples, the percentage of divorces initiated by wives is a whopping 90 percent."
http://www.divorce-lawyer-source.com/faq/emotional/who-initiates-divorce-men-or-women.html

As the sun sets on mens day I don't think it is appropriate to be pointing out that the smarter the woman the more likely she is to divorce her husband.

Night boys, hope you had a good one.

Nice posts, proxy.

TPP:"Proxy, I don't think today is the right day to demand the men explain why they keep leaving homes fatherless."

Actually, as proxy points out, most divorce is initiated by women. The intelligence of the women involved has not been tested, but obviously it can't be too high if their kids end up in your care.

I guess it's not unreasonable for you to want to protect your income. The last thing you want is for marriages to end peacefully - no conflict, no foster kids, no lovely tax-free income. Much the same motivation drives women who tell lies in court about their husband being abusive - violence = exclusivity = lots of lovely tax-free dollars.

It's not very admirable though.

Cornflower, it's revealling of a couple of the women here that they couldn;t resist the urge to try to point-score, regardless of the facts. The White Ribbon people did the same thing - running ads on tv yestreday. Funny that they could get funding to do that but no politicians could be bothered acknowledgng IMD, isn't it?

I hope IMD grows into something worthwhile. I can sympathise with the view that we have too many "days", but with the current genderised social upheaval, I think it's really important to remind some of the women around the place that men are actually humans, not just gorillas who can speak as the feminist doctrine has had it for so long.

searching, very nice post, thanks.

for whatever reasons the parents chooses to part ways, it is up to the parents to maintain a healthy relationship in order for the children's well being.

playing the blame game doesn't make a different in eliminating behavioral issues why a child cannot understand in their young minds the non family(complete) environment they live in.

there are plenty of single fathers who do a great job bringing their children up solo.

there are also many father's that because of how it is, are not allowed to see their children as much as they would like to as sometimes the children become bargaining chips when a parent decides to put themselves in front of their child/ren.

maybe having rules on who can have children in the future? remember the movie Gatacca? who knows..

Anti: thx for the link.. dang! now i have to do boring things as well:p