Their female children will become unwed mothers themselves, and the cycle continues. The growing divorce rate also magnifies the trend of fatherless families. About 40 percent of children whose parents are divorced have not seen their father in at least a year. Ten years after divorce, more than two-thirds of kids living with their mother haven't seen their father for a year. Many people, particularly single mothers, question the notion that children suffer without an active dad in the family.
Mothers assume their love and guidance is enough.
However, an avalanche of evidence from educators, law enforcement officials, mental health facilities and teen pregnancy programs show the negative consequences of raising children without fathers. The facts clearly demonstrate that children of disrupted families experience increased emotional, behavioral, and educational problems. When fathers are absent from the home, adolescent and teenage boys are two to four times more likely to be arrested for juvenile offenses. Children living in non-intact families are two times more likely to repeat a grade than students living with both parents, and the dropout rate is also two times greater for fatherless children. Boys who got in trouble for violent misbehavior while at school were 11 times more likely to come from fatherless homes.