Fatherless Home

According to this article, fatherless households are most likely to have a child to commit a crime. In this article, several key facts are listed as to why children in homes without a father tend to be delinquents. One fact is poverty. Most single-family homes are in poverty. One study conducted showed that poverty is paralleled to criminal behavior. Another fact stated is the lack of discipline. The father has always been the authority figure and had a dominant role in the household. According to the article a mother cannot fulfill this obligation like a father can.
I knew that poverty could lead to crime, but I did not know the fact of not having a father in a home had such an impact on the manner. Who knew a father was the base foundation of a family? I always was one to think that a woman /mother could do anything a man/father could do, but after reading this article, I realized that children need their father in their households. A simply mother cannot provide the emotional and physical support a child need as a father can do. There are some things a mother simply cannot do.
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One study mentioned in the article showed that girls who father left the home were more promiscuous and had a higher teen pregnancy rate than girls who fathers lived in the home. In former President Obama’s 2013 Father’s Day address mention in this article, he stated “No matter how advanced we get, there will never be a substitute for the presence of a parent in a child’s life, and in some ways that is uniquely true for fathers.” Another factor mentioned in the article was fatherless households had a significantly higher teen abortion rate. Researchers showed that girls with a father in the home are less likely to have an