Ep. 108: The Epidemic of Fatherlessness

Story #1: Society needs storng fathers

-We as a society tend to focus on all the wrong problems. We’ve heard the last month from this administration that the two greatest problems facing America right now are “climate change” and “white supremacy.” Not only is that completely inaccurate statistically, more people die each year from lightning strikes than from actual instances of white supremacy, it’s also completely misguided. It’d be as if you were having a heart attack and the doctor thought your ingrown fingernail was the greatest threat to your body.

What’s the actual greatest threat to the future of America? I would argue the overall moral decay. “Men have forgotten God” as Solzhenitzen would say, and specifically how that has affected the fatherlessness crisis. A father plays such an important role of shaping the ideology of a family, and as we see the ideology of America crumbling, we

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”

-20 million infected in the united states by fatherlessness

-symptoms of fatherlessness:

Poverty, lack of educational achievement, crime, poor physical & emotional health, sexual activity and teen pregnancy, substance abuse.

-fatherless families are 44% more likely to raise children living in poverty.

-90% of all homeless and runaway children are fatherless.

Drugs:

-Kids from fatherless homes are 10x more likely to abuse chemical substances

-71% of all adolescent substance abusers come from a fatherless home.

Mental illness:

-80% of adolescents in psychiatric hospitals come from fatherless homes

-Kids from fatherless homes are 2x more likely to commit suicide

Health issues:

-Fatherless children experience more accidents and a higher rate of chronic asthma, headaches, and speech defects.  

Academic issues:

-Fatherless children are more likely to score lower than the norm in reading and math

-kids are 9X more likely to drop out of school

-less likely to obtain academic and professional qualifications in adulthood

-71& of all high school dropouts

Crime

-70% of adolescents in juvenile correctional facilities come from fatherless homes.

-60% of rapists were raised in fatherless homes

-20x more likely to be incarcerated if you were from a fatherless home

-9X more likely to be raped or sexually abused in a home without a biological father.

-85% of all youths in prison

70% of teen pregnancies happen in fatherless homes.

-85% of children with behavior disorders

-40% of children in father-absent homes have not seen their father at all for at least a year.

Story #2: Education Insanity https://www.dailywire.com/news/education-insanity-top-10-stories-of-the-week-vol-20