Fatherlessness Research Paper
Imagine growing up without knowing your father while your friends may have hardworking loving fathers at home. Just thinking about that alone can traumatize a child for a while. Fatherlessness is a problem society should take action to address. Fatherlessness is a huge problem. Some people on trial for horrible crimes or some people in rehab for deep drug addictions have said that if their fathers were in their lives maybe they would have chosen a different direction in life. David Blankenhorn stated that “Fatherlessness is the most harmful demographic trend of this generation. It is the leading cause of declining child well-being in our society.” (Pg.21) Quassan T. Castro states that “I recall the hurt feelings I had when I would go to
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Such as physical, mental, and emotional abuse which can occur from various reasons. I said physical abuse because there have been cases of single mothers becoming abusive to their children due to the stress of not having enough help. I said emotional abuse because 63% of youth suicides cone from fatherless homes. I also said mental abuse because 71% of all high school dropouts have also come from fatherless homes. People who grew up in homes without fathers may argue that fatherlessness is not a problem because they grew up to be very successful in life, but they were just the lucky ones with more than likely a great support system to back them as they chased their goals. Even if you’re very successful not having a father while growing up could affect you with relationships and being social in general. A couple of ways society could help to fix fatherlessness is by making the laws of absents fathers stricter to where if you aren’t in your child’s life for whatever reason you will be sent to prison. There’s no reason your child should grow up without a father, but that father can still go around with their freedom. One other way society could with absent fathers is by taking more money out of the father’s checks to where the only way they could get the amount of money they owe reduced is by spending more time with their
Such as physical, mental, and emotional abuse which can occur from various reasons. I said physical abuse because there have been cases of single mothers becoming abusive to their children due to the stress of not having enough help. I said emotional abuse because 63% of youth suicides cone from fatherless homes. I also said mental abuse because 71% of all high school dropouts have also come from fatherless homes. People who grew up in homes without fathers may argue that fatherlessness is not a problem because they grew up to be very successful in life, but they were just the lucky ones with more than likely a great support system to back them as they chased their goals. Even if you’re very successful not having a father while growing up could affect you with relationships and being social in general. A couple of ways society could help to fix fatherlessness is by making the laws of absents fathers stricter to where if you aren’t in your child’s life for whatever reason you will be sent to prison. There’s no reason your child should grow up without a father, but that father can still go around with their freedom. One other way society could with absent fathers is by taking more money out of the father’s checks to where the only way they could get the amount of money they owe reduced is by spending more time with their