The statistics abound and the statistics are not good:

One of the chief predictors of youth crime is the role of the father in the home. Seventy percent of adolescents charged with murder and seventy percent of long-term prison inmates are from fatherless homes.

Children who live absent their biological father are at least two to three times more likely to be poor, use drugs, be victims of child abuse and to engage in criminal behavior.

Twenty-four million children live absent their biological fathers and forty percent of those children have not seen their father at all during the past year. [1]

And another statistic: Americans today know more about the Simpsons than they do the first amendment. Only 28% of Americans are able to name more than one of the five freedoms granted by the fi…