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Children of Divorce & Separation — Statistics

Consequences of father absence.

It's Official: The Experiment Has Failed

For the best part of thirty years we have been conducting a vast experiment with the family, and now the results are in: the decline of the two-parent, married-couple family has resulted in poverty, ill-health, educational failure, unhappiness, anti-social behaviour, isolation and social exclusion for thousands of women, men and children.

Experiments in Living: The Fatherless Family

By Rebecca O'Neill; Sept. 2002, CIVITAS

The following is from the newsletter Common Sense & Domestic Violence, 1998 01 30

Allegations of family violence are the weapon-of-choice in divorce strategies. Lawyers, and paralegals in women's shelters, call them "The Silver Bullet". False abuse allegations work effectively in removing men from their families. The impact that the removal of fathers has on our children is horrific. The next page shows some of the consequences of the removal of fathers from the lives of their children.

The Impact on our Children

Inter-spousal violence perpetrated by men is only a small aspect of family violence. False abuse allegations are only a small tile in the mosaic of vilifying the men in our society. They serve well in successful attempts to remove fathers from the lives of our children. Here are some statistics resulting from that which show more of the whole picture.  

79.6% of custodial mothers receive a support award

29.9% of custodial fathers receive a support award.

46.9% of non-custodial mothers totally default on support.

26.9% of non-custodial fathers totally default on support.

20.0% of non-custodial mothers pay support at some level

61.0% of non-custodial fathers pay support at some level

66.2% of single custodial mothers work less than full time.

10.2% of single custodial fathers work less than full time.

7.0% of single custodial mothers work more than 44 hours weekly.

24.5% of single custodial fathers work more that 44 hours weekly.

46.2% of single custodial mothers receive public assistance.

20.8% of single custodial fathers receive public assistance.

[Technical Analysis Paper No. 42 - U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services - Office of Income Security Policy]

40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the fathers visitation to punish their ex-spouse.

["Frequency of Visitation" by Sanford Braver, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry]

50% of mothers see no value in the fathers continued contact with his children.

["Surviving the Breakup" by Joan Berlin Kelly]

90.2% of fathers with joint custody pay the support due.

79.1% of fathers with visitation privileges pay the support due.

44.5% of fathers with no visitation pay the support due.

37.9% of fathers are denied any visitation.

66% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to the inability to pay.

[1988 Census "Child Support and Alimony: 1989 Series" P-60, No. 173 p.6-7, and "U.S. General Accounting Office Report" GAO/HRD-92-39FS January 1992]

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.

[U. S. D.H.H.S. Bureau of the Census]