“Three out of four teenage suicides occur in households where a parent has been absent.” – Jean Bethke Elshtain, Family Matters: The Plight of America’s Children. The Christian Century (July 1993)

“85% of youths in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.” – U. S. D.H.H.S. Bureau of the Census

“80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes.” - Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol. 14

“In studies involving over 25,000 children using nationally representative data sets, children who lived with only one parent had lower grade point averages, lower college aspirations, poor attendance records, and higher dropout rates than students who lived with both parents.” – Sara McLanahan, Gary Sandefur, Growing Up With a Single Parent: What Hurts, What Helps.

"Fatherless Children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy, and criminality." - U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1993

"71% of pregnant teenage girls come from a fatherless home" - US D.H.H.S.

“Boys who grow up in father absent homes are more likely than those in father present homes to have trouble establishing appropriate sex roles and gender identity.” - P.L. Adams, J.R. Milner, Fatherless Children

“Adolescent females between the ages of 15 and 19 years reared in homes without fathers are significantly more likely to engage in premarital sex than adolescent females reared in homes with both a mother and a father.” – Contextual Effects on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women, Journal of Marriage and Family 56 (1994)

“A white teenage girl from an advantaged background is five times more likely to become a teen mother if she grows up in a single-mother household than if she grows up in a household with both biological parents.” – Facing the Challenges of Fragmented Families, The Philanthropy Roundtable.

“I have worked with thousands of homosexuals. I have never seen a homosexual who had a loving respectful relationship with his father.” - Dr. Joseph Nicolosi

“Fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse.” – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Survey on Child Health.

“Teenagers living in single-parent households are more likely to abuse alcohol and at an earlier age compared to children reared in two-parent households.” – Journal of Studies on Alcohol

“The absence of the father in a home affects significantly the behavior of adolescents and results in the greater use of alcohol and marijuana.” – Deane Scott Berman, Risk Factors Leading to Adolescent Substance Abuse