Følgende undersøgelse læste jeg for første gang tilbage i 2002. Nu mener jeg personligt resultatet er så indlysende rent intuitivt, at jeg næsten sad og gabte da jeg læste den, fordi der står reelt ikke noget i den, som enhver ikke kunne have sagt sig selv. Men ok; nu kan vi se det på tryk også så. Og selvom undersøgelsen er foretaget i USA tror jeg ikke tendensen ville være væsentligt forskellig, hvis lignende undersøgelse blev foretaget i Danmark. Den ville muligvis være blødt lidt op pga. af velfærdsstaten - men det er jo så netop også kun pga. af velfærdsstaten. Og den består ikke for evigt, hvis den feministiske varmluftsballon primært producerer et hæsligt afkast, i form af det ene behandlingskrævende barn efter det andet.

Summary The Experiment

• Fewer children live with both their mother and their father
• Routes into the fatherless family
  
  • Divorce
  • Births outside marriage
  • Changes in marriage and cohabitation
• Is the married two-parent family a thing of the past?
  
  • Most people still believe in the ideal of marriage and do, in fact, get married

The Results: How does the Fatherless Family Affect Adults, Children and Society?

• Lone mothers
  
  • Are poorer
  • Are more likely to suffer from stress, depression, and other emotional and psychological problems
  • Have more health problems
  • May have more problems interacting with their children
• Non-resident biological fathers
  
  • Are at risk of losing contact with their children
  • Are more likely to have health problems and engage in high-risk behaviour
• Children living without their biological fathers
  
  • Are more likely to live in poverty and deprivation
  • Have more trouble in school
  • Tend to have more trouble getting along with others
  • Have higher risk of health problems
  • Are at greater risk of suffering physical, emotional, or sexual abuse.
  • Are more likely to run away from home
• Teenagers living without their biological fathers
  
  • Are more likely to experience problems with sexual health
  • Are more likely to become teenage parents
  • Are more likely to offend
  • Are more likely to smoke
  • Are more likely to drink alcohol
  • Are more likely to take drugs
  • Are more likely to play truant from school
  • Are more likely to be excluded from school
  • Are more likely to leave school at 16
  • Are more likely to have adjustment problems
• Young adults who grew up not living with their biological fathers
  
  • Are less likely to attain qualifications
  • Are more likely to experience unemployment
  • Are more likely to have low incomes
  • Are more likely be on income support
  • Are more likely to experience homelessness
  • Are more likely to be caught offending and go to jail
  • Are more likely to suffer from long term emotional and psychological problems
  • Are more likely to develop health problems
  • Tend to enter partnerships earlier and more often as a cohabitation
  • Are more likely to divorce or dissolve their cohabiting unions
  • Are more likely to have children outside marriage or outside any partnership

Effects on the Social Fabric

• Increased crime and violence
• Decreased community ties
• A growing ‘divorce culture’
• Cycle of fatherlessness
• Dependence on state welfare

Why all these Effects?

• Poverty
• Reduced parental and paternal attention
• Conditions before, during and after divorce

Hele rapporten her: http://www.civitas.org.uk/pubs/experiments.php