The Backlash! - October 1996

Organization News - Fathers & Families
P.O. Box 67398 Los Angeles, CA 90067

Facts and Figures

Fathers, Mothers and Children

compiled by Paul Ciotti
a freelance writer who lives in Southern California


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 fahters 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% of single custodial mothers work more than 44 hours weekly 24.5% of single custodial fathers work more than 44 hours weekly
46.2% of single custodial mothers receive public assistance 20.8% of single of single custodial fathers receive public assistance - Technical Analysis Paper No. 42 - U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services - Office of Income Security Policy
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 fathes is due to 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 50% of mothers see no value in the father's continued contact with his children - Surviving the Breakup by Joan Berlin Kelly
40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the father's visitation...to punish their ex-spouse - Frequency of Visitation... by Stanford Braver, Ameircan Journal of Orthopsychiatry 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes - U.S.D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census
90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes - Center for Disease Control
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes - Criminal Jusitce and Behavior, Vol. 14, p403-26 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes - National Principals Association Report on the State of High schools
70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes - U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept. 1988 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherles shome - Fulton County Georgia jail populations & Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992

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