Bringing Up Boys by James Dobson

Author:James Dobson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: RELIGION / Christian Life / Family, RELIGION / Christian Life / General
ISBN: 9781414341477
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2014-08-22T04:00:00+00:00

Cynthia Harper at the University of California, San Francisco, and Sara McLanahan from Princeton studied the phenomenon of father-absence by conducting what came to be known as the “National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.” The researchers identified 6,403 boys between fourteen and twenty-two years of age and then followed them until their early thirties. Here are a few of their salient findings:

The sons of single mothers are at greater risk for violence, apparently because they have spent less time with their fathers. A child born out of wedlock is two-and-a-half times as likely to serve time in prison.

Child support makes no difference one way or another in the likelihood that a boy will grow up to be a criminal. It appears that the economic status of a single mother is not the key factor. It is the absence of “Dad.”

The third conclusion is even more surprising. The very small number of teenage boys in the study who lived with their single fathers were no more likely to commit crimes than were boys from intact families. Why? Perhaps it is because men who don’t marry but care for their children single-handedly are unusually devoted fathers.[189]

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