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American Fathers Disappearing
by Ben Shapiro
27 Dec 2012
With America suffering from increasing poverty, and with more and more children born into mountains of debt unleashed by their parents and grandparents generations, the greatest threat of all may be this: the American father is dying. According to the Washington Times, every state has watched single-parent households multiply while two-parent households decline:
Even as the country added 160,000 families with children, the number of twoparent households decreased by 1.2 million. Fifteen million US children, or 1 in 3, live without a father, and nearly 5 million live without a mother. In 1960, just 11 percent of American children lived in homes without fathers.
Single motherhood is the single leading predictor of poverty and crime in America today. While married couples average $80,000 in earnings, single moms average $24,000. The worst problem with lack of fathers takes place in the black community; 54% of black children live without a father. But single motherhood is skyrocketing across racial lines, with 41% of all births taking place out of wedlock. A full 30% of children born to white women with some post-high school education but no college degree have no father in the home. That number is 60% for those who dont go to college.
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