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Does a Father's Presence Matter?
Children with involved, loving fathers are more likely to:
  • do well in school
  • have healthy self-esteem
  • avoid high risk behaviors like drug use and truancy

**Children from Fatherless Homes Are:
  • 5 Times More Likely to Commit Suicide**
  • 9 Times More likely to Drop Out of School**
  • 10 Times More Likely to Abuse Chemical Substances**
  • 14 Times More Likely to Commit Rape**
  • 20 Times More Likely to Have Behavioral Disorders**
  • 20 Times More Likely to End Up in Prison.**
  • 32 Times More Likely to Run Away**

  • **(Source:  data from It's Better to Build Boys Than to Mend Men, 2004, Looking Glass Books, by S. Truett Cathy, Founder of Chick-Fil-A.) (also a must read)

Must Reads:

  • Divorced Dads - Shattering the Myths, Sanford L. Braver, Ph.D. and Diane O'Connell, Tarcher/Putnam, 1998 (248 pp)
  • Save the Males, Why Men Matter, Why Women Should Care, Kathleen Parker, Random House, 2008 (198 pp)

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