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Originally Posted by raeanna74
They don't deliniate in these statistics as to how many of these children are a result of one night stands and the mother doesn't even know which man she's been with is the father. A mother who is careless about her reproductive abilities is going to be just as careless about her children. If father's could have children then I have a feeling that the statistics would show that this is a problem for single parent homes not just fatherless homes.
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Again from an earlier source:
Results from longitudinal event-history analysis showed that although a sizable portion of the risk that appeared to be due to father absence could actually be attributed to other factors, such as teen motherhood, low parent education, racial inequalities, and poverty,
adolescents in father-absent households still faced elevated incarceration risks.
BTW -I am from a father absent houshold and I came within a hair of being sent to jail for 10 years when I was about 18. Perhaps the real contributing factor is that fathers usually know about a good lawyer...
