(C) 
Section 
403(a)(5)(G)(ii) 
(42 
U.S.C. 
603(a)(5)(G)(ii)). 
(D) 
Section 
412(a)(3)(B)(iv) 
(42 
U.S.C. 
612(a)(3)(B)(iv)). 
SEC. 119. FATHERHOOD PROGRAM. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘Promotion and Support of Responsible Fatherhood and 
Healthy Marriage Act of 2003’’. 
(b) FATHERHOOD PROGRAM.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Title I of the Personal Re-
sponsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation 
Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–193) is amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 117. FATHERHOOD PROGRAM. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Title IV (42 U.S.C. 601–679b) 
is amended by inserting after part B the following: 
‘‘ ‘PART C—FATHERHOOD PROGRAM 
‘‘ ‘SEC. 441. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES. 
‘‘ ‘(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that there is 
substantial evidence strongly indicating the urgent need 
to promote and support involved, committed, and respon-
sible fatherhood, and to encourage and support healthy 
marriages between parents raising children, including data 
demonstrating the following:
‘‘ ‘(1) In approximately 90 percent of cases 
where a parent is absent, that parent is the father. 
‘‘ ‘(2) By some estimates, 60 percent of children 
born in the 1990’s will spend a significant portion 
of their childhood in a home without a father. 
‘‘ ‘(3) Nearly 75 percent of children in single-
parent homes will experience poverty before they are 
11 years old, compared with only 20 percent of chil-
dren in 2-parent families. 
‘‘ ‘(4) Low income is positively correlated with 
children’s difficulties with education, social adjust-
ment, and delinquency, and single-parent households 
constitute a disproportionate share of low-income 
households. 
‘‘ ‘(5) Where families (whether intact or with a 
parent absent) are living in poverty, a significant 
factor is the father’s lack of job skills. 
‘‘ ‘(6) Children raised in 2-parent married fami-
lies, on average, fare better as a group in key areas, 
including better school performance, reduced rates of 
substance abuse, crime, and delinquency, fewer 
health, emotional, and behavioral problems, lower 
rates of teenage sexual activity, less risk of abuse or 
neglect, and lower risk of teen suicide.
‘‘ ‘(7) Committed and responsible fathering dur-
ing infancy and early childhood contributes to the 
development of emotional security, curiosity, and 
math and verbal skills. 
‘‘ ‘(8) An estimated 24,000,000 children (33.5 
percent) live apart from their biological father. 
‘‘ ‘(9) A recent national survey indicates that of 
children under age 18 not living with their biological 
father, 37 percent had not seen their father even 
once in the last 12 months. 
‘‘ ‘(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this part are: 
‘‘ ‘(1) To provide for projects and activities by 
public entities and by nonprofit community entities, 
including religious organizations, designed to test 
promising approaches to accomplishing the following 
objectives: 
‘‘ ‘(A) Promoting responsible, caring, and 
effective parenting through counseling, men-
toring, and parenting education, dissemination 
of educational materials and information on 
parenting skills, encouragement of positive fa-
ther involvement, including the positive involve-
ment of nonresident fathers, and other meth-
ods.