1. "The spiral continues each year to the point where married couples with children have an average income of $80,000, which is compared to $24,000 for single mothers.
'We have one class that thinks marriage and fatherhood is important, and another which doesnt, and its causing that gap, income inequality, to get wider,' said Mr. DiCaro to The Washington Times.
2. Men walking away from babies is a problem concentrated to the inner cities, with Baltimore having only 38 percent of families that have two parents and St. Louis has 40 percent of families that have two children.
3. 'Something has to be done about it, and it starts with the culture and reversing the attitude that marriage is not important.
4. The largest contiguous area of sustained fatherlessness is in the largely black poor across Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana running along the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee.
5. 'When you have very little going for you in your life, having children can give purpose to it. If youre married, youre going to be much more cautious. Theres health care costs and our jobs, whereas if we were both just kind of doing whatever, then why not just have another kid?'
6. Fathers are fast disappearing from American homes and one in three children, or approximately 15 million live without one according to the U.S. Census .Blame for the prevalence of low income families where children fall into crime and drugs has been laid at the door of these damning numbers.
1 in 3 US children live without their father according to census as the number of two-parent households decreases by 1.2 million | Mail Online
7. Nicole Hawkins three daughters have matching glittery boots, but none has the same father. Each has uniquely colored ties in her hair, but none has a dad present in her life.
8. As another single mother on Sumner Road decked her row-house stoop with Christmas lights and a plastic Santa, Ms. Hawkins recalled that her middle childs father has never spent a holiday or birthday with her. In her neighborhood in Southeast Washington, 1 in 10 children live with both parents, and 84 percent live with only their mother.
9. But the move toward single-parent homes has included every race, and from Curtis Bay in Baltimore to Millcreek outside Salt Lake City to Vancouver, Wash., just north of Portland, there are 1,500 neighborhoods with substantial white populations where most white households lack fathers. Maine, Vermont and West Virginia have the lowest dual-parenthood rates for whites.
10. Among blacks, nearly 5 million children, or 54 percent, live with only their mother. Twelve percent of black families below the poverty line have two parents present, compared with 41 percent of impoverished Hispanic families and 32 percent of poor white families. The schism is most apparent in the District, which has a higher portion of two-parent families among whites, at 85 percent, and a lower share among blacks, at 25 percent, than any state.
Fathers disappear from households across America - Washington Times
'We have one class that thinks marriage and fatherhood is important, and another which doesnt, and its causing that gap, income inequality, to get wider,' said Mr. DiCaro to The Washington Times.
2. Men walking away from babies is a problem concentrated to the inner cities, with Baltimore having only 38 percent of families that have two parents and St. Louis has 40 percent of families that have two children.
3. 'Something has to be done about it, and it starts with the culture and reversing the attitude that marriage is not important.
4. The largest contiguous area of sustained fatherlessness is in the largely black poor across Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana running along the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee.
5. 'When you have very little going for you in your life, having children can give purpose to it. If youre married, youre going to be much more cautious. Theres health care costs and our jobs, whereas if we were both just kind of doing whatever, then why not just have another kid?'
6. Fathers are fast disappearing from American homes and one in three children, or approximately 15 million live without one according to the U.S. Census .Blame for the prevalence of low income families where children fall into crime and drugs has been laid at the door of these damning numbers.
1 in 3 US children live without their father according to census as the number of two-parent households decreases by 1.2 million | Mail Online
7. Nicole Hawkins three daughters have matching glittery boots, but none has the same father. Each has uniquely colored ties in her hair, but none has a dad present in her life.
8. As another single mother on Sumner Road decked her row-house stoop with Christmas lights and a plastic Santa, Ms. Hawkins recalled that her middle childs father has never spent a holiday or birthday with her. In her neighborhood in Southeast Washington, 1 in 10 children live with both parents, and 84 percent live with only their mother.
9. But the move toward single-parent homes has included every race, and from Curtis Bay in Baltimore to Millcreek outside Salt Lake City to Vancouver, Wash., just north of Portland, there are 1,500 neighborhoods with substantial white populations where most white households lack fathers. Maine, Vermont and West Virginia have the lowest dual-parenthood rates for whites.
10. Among blacks, nearly 5 million children, or 54 percent, live with only their mother. Twelve percent of black families below the poverty line have two parents present, compared with 41 percent of impoverished Hispanic families and 32 percent of poor white families. The schism is most apparent in the District, which has a higher portion of two-parent families among whites, at 85 percent, and a lower share among blacks, at 25 percent, than any state.
Fathers disappear from households across America - Washington Times
