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Dropping the Bomb on the Nuclear Family
Men, Women, and the Governments role in Child Development
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The percentage of American children living apart from their
biological fathers will reach 50 percent within the next
generation.
I Love
myChildren
Fathers play a crucial role in child development. Children
develop best when they are provided with the opportunity to have
warm, continuous, intimate, and enduring relationships with both
their fathers and their mothers.
Yet, if present trends continue . . .
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Children Who Grow Up Without Fathers are
Five times more likely to live in poverty
Nine times more likely to drop out of school
20 times more likely to end up in prison
Dada
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"Yet, while studies consistently show that men are victims of domestic violence
as often as are women, both the lay public and many professionals regard afinding . . . surprising, if not unreliable, the stereotype being that men are aggressive and women are
exclusively victims.'"
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology
Cant we
all justget
along
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There are more than 200 all-female colleges for women
and not one single all-male college for men.
5.8% fewer men than women are enrolled in 4 year
colleges.
In 1993 only 44.5% of college enrollment were men,
and that figure has declined since then.
Only 38.4% of private 4 year college students were
men as of 1990, and this figure has declined since then.
BafflingFacts
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Be available more than just weekends.
Show respect for your co-parent.
Be aware of the need to communicate.
Know your legal rights.
Stay involved after a divorce or breakup,
co-parenting works.
Consider counseling.
WHAT CAN MEN DO
Its not
all my
fault
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WHAT CAN WOMEN DO
Look at things from your co-parents perspective.
Adjust your standards to your needs.
Treat your co-parent as a partner not a helper.
Praise your co-parent.
Dont be a gatekeeper.
Recognize you cant do it alone.
Consider counseling.
I
Love
Your
Mom
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WHAT CAN THE GOVERNMENT DO?
Reduce gender stereotyping in schools andGovernment literature.
Provide Government funds for Fathers on a local
level.
Make Fathers welcome in doctors offices and
hospitals.
Public Awareness that single parents can all have a
tough time.
Overhaul the welfare system; focus on children and
single parents.
Hmmm
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Encourage joint custody.
Uphold divorced and separated Fathers rights.
Implement Father friendly employment practices, not
attacking them with DCS.
Insist on a more accurate portrayal of Fathers in
media.
Encourage Fathers to join programs to make them
better single Fathers and co-parents.
WHAT ELSE CAN THE GOVERNMENT DO?
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WHAT CAN WE DO?
Help by supporting programs that help build
relationships with mothers, fathers, and children.
If you are in a co-parenting situation do your part to get along,
you should be civil for the sake of the children.
Realize that fathers do not have the same access to services
and programs that women do and if that does not change,
then it will be harder for fathers to be adequate caregivers in
single parent situations.
Develop counseling programs that help to make family time,
dinners, and playtime with both parents.
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Some of you may know the story of a father who overheard his son
praying one night. He said, Dear God, make me the kind of man
my father is. Later that night, the father, as he lay down to pray,
said, Dear God, make me the kind of man my son wants me tobe.