Friday, January 9, 2009

Single mothers fatherless families at 39% and climbing

The Changing Fatherlessness Rate
The rise in the number of single American women has given birth to another trend: the rise in single motherhood. The nonmarital birth rate rose sharply from 18% in 1980 to 39% in 2006. According the National Center for Health Statistics, this trend is not being fueled by teenage mothers, but rather by women in their 30s and 40s.

Women are choosing single motherhood because men, we hear, have nothing to offer. Books such as Peggy Drexler's Raising Boys Without Men: How Maverick Moms are Creating the Next Generation of Exceptional Men contribute to this growing perspective.

Do men have nothing to offer? The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services reports that children from fatherless homes are more likely to commit suicide, run away, have behavioral disorders, abuse alcohol, use drugs, commit rape, and end up in prison. This is true regardless of the mother's age, race, or socioeconomic status.
The rise in fatherlessness is a vicious cycle: fatherless boys are twice as likely to drop out of school; they earn less money without a college education; women are becoming more educated than men and aren't interested in marrying men who earn less money than they do; so the number of single women rises; they choose single motherhood; fatherlessness rises; the cycle starts all over again.

(NOT TO MENTION THE BEAUTY OF LOVE AND COMMITMENT, GOD IS THERE ANYTHING SACRED! ALL MY LIFE I'VE DREAMED OF FALLING IN LOVE WITH A WOMAN AND BEING A HUSBAND AND FATHER. GOD HELP US!)

Regardless of whether we can reverse these trends and keep families together, men are starting to fight for their right to be fathers and not to support women that are not their wives, not to support children we can not see. WE WANT OUR CHILDREN BACK, WE WANT OUR BABIES! 2/3 divorces are initiated by women and if they leave us then let us go our separate ways!!! LEAVE US ALONE, WE LOVE YOU!!

The National Center for Fathering conducted a poll that found that 72% of Americans think that fatherlessness is the most significant family or social problem facing our nation. America is the world's leader in fatherless families.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I agree with this. If a Divorced Father can't see his own child -- because he ran out of Money to pay to professional Lieyers and Thieves -- then something is wrong.
I speak from personal experience: having fought to stay in my child's life for over five years: while the court and it's cohort of Crooks robbed me of every last penny they could to be my child's Dad: while they micromanaged me and only me, let Mom tell as many lies as she thought she could get away with, allowed her lawyers to tell as many lies as necessary to make her happy, althered three different transcripts, and pocketed about $120,000.

Mom also used ALL of her ($45K) in "child support" to pay her (five different) Lawyers: plus another $15-25K of her own money.

The result is that I had to either "get a job that pays more" like the Judge said, or walk away from my Daughter: I chose the latter: having realized that the deck was stacked against me: and against fathers all across this land.

Not many people know it but Family Court officials are (quite litterally) Above the Law, and are using children to commit extortion.

Below is a link to another article that explains how we got here. It's called "The Philosophy of Father Replacement."

www.earthage.org/familycourt/replacement-dad-philosophy.htm