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The Billion Dollar Man...The Real Cost of Fatherlessness

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Several years ago I believe in 2006 there was a study conducted to determine the annual tax payer cost of  father absence. Tax dollars cover a variety of public social service programs such as:
  • EITC-Earned Income Tax Credit
  • TANF: Temporary Assistance to needy Families
  • Child Support Enforcement
  • SSI-Social Security Insurance
  • SNAP:Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (formerly Food Stamps)
  • Free School Lunch
  • WIC-Women Infant and Children
  • Medicaid
  • Head Start
  • Child Care
  • Public Housing 
  • Section 8 Rental Subsidies and, 
  • Energy Assistance
In 2013 these social service programs accounted for about 12% of the federal budget which it roughly $398 billion dollars. Single mother household account for over $100 billion dollars. Outside the financial hardships, what really happens to children that come from fatherless homes? Many studies find that the following are some of the many adverse effects of children growing up in a female headed household are: 
  1.  Eight times more likely to go to prison.
  2.  Twenty times more likely to have behavioral problems.
  3. 32 times more likely to run away
  4.  Ten times more likely to abuse chemical substances.
  5.  Nine times more likely to drop out of high school..
  6. 73 times more likely to be fatally abuse
  7. 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
  8. 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
  9. 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes.
  10. 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes.
With our children's futures in jeopardy we must begin to make a critical analysis of ways to reverse this destructive trend. 

  
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