one parent households

[AZ Astrea]

I found this on another group and thought you guys would find it
interesting.

~AZ~

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*QUESTION:*

I need any research that has been done that describes the results of fathers
having custody of their young children. The results I'm concerned with are
the psychological, emotional, and educational performace of the children who
are raised by fathers. The purpose of this is to prove in a custody case
that there is data to support that children are well taken care of by
fathers.


*ANSWER:*

Thanks for an interesting question.


There's volumes of research on this topic, so I've focused on articles that
offer an overview of the studies.

A wealth of statistics about increased likelihoods of deviant behavior for
children in fatherless homes:
URL: http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/stats.htm

"Children whose fathers are involved in raising them do better in school,
are less likely to get into trouble with the law, and are more likely to be
better parents themselves" from "Fathers Matter" by Jayne Keedle:
URL: http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/fathersmatter.htm

The SPARC articles archive in general is potentially useful:
URL: http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/articles.htm

"18 percent of the families headed by a single father live in poverty,
although that is still far below the rate for families headed by single
mothers, about 43 percent" from a NYTimes article "changing the
Single-Parent Mix:"
URL: http://www.dadsrights.org/articles/nytimes.893.html

Anne Mitchell, director of Fathers' Rights and Equality Exchange testimony
to the California Focus on Fathers Summit:
URL: http://www.dadsrights.org/testimony/summitapm.html

There are also other articles from Fathers' Rights and Equality Exchange you
may find of interest:
URL: http://www.dadsrights.org/articles/articles.html

A report to the US Commission on Child & Family Welfare is available here:
URL: http://users.erols.com/afc/usccfw.html

Of particular interest are the following:

"A wealth of research studies have now been conducted to strengthen the
conclusion that divorce, single parenting, and father absence are strongly
related to adverse child and adolescent outcomes."
URL: http://users.erols.com/afc/minority1.htm

"The consequences of father absence for children are typically
detrimental... Whether from too little time with even one parent, too little
income, or both, children too often suffer."
URL: http://users.erols.com/afc/majority2.htm

"85% of prisoners, 78% of high school dropouts, 82% of teenage girls who
become pregnant, the majority of drug and alcohol abusers -- all come from
single-mother-headed households. Less than 1% of any of these categories
come from single-father-headed households."
URL: http://users.erols.com/afc/ourf.html

"Children in single-father care are more likely to enjoy positive
relationships with both their mothers and their fathers than are children
with single mothers" from "The Role of the Father After Divorce:"
URL:
http://www.futureofchildren.org/information2827/information_show.htm?doc_id=
75610

"Fatherless children are more likely to drop out of school, have poorer
attendance records, score lower grades, and abuse alcohol or drugs compared
with children whose fathers are in their homes" from The Future Of
Children's Fast Facts:
URL: http://www.futureofchildren.org/info-url2832/info-url_list.htm

"Fathers' involvement in their children's schools has a distinct and
independent influence on many of these outcomes, even after controlling for
potentially confounding factors such as the parents' education, household
income, and, in two-parent families, the mothers' involvement" from the
executive summary of National Center for Education Statistics' Statistical
Analysis Report: Fathers' Involvement in Their Children's Schools:
URL: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/fathers/

"A Yale study found that infants living only with their fathers were two to
six months ahead of other infants in personal and social skills, and that
older babies in father-care exhibited similar advantages. Another survey
found that boys in father-custody homes have higher self-esteem, are more
mature, more independent, and less demanding than boys in mother-custody
homes. A recent Danish study comparing toddlers in single mom and single dad
homes found that the father care children had fewer temper tantrums, were
less-sensitive to criticism, less fearful, less likely to feel lonely, and
more likely to have high self-esteem."
URL: http://www.glennsacks.com/father_care_the.htm

"A meta-analysis of 171 studies comparing mothers' and fathers' parenting
found few significant differences" from "The Many Meanings of Family and the
Role of Fathers:"
URL: http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/manymeanings.html#presence


Additionally, some resources are available for a cost.

A $6 journal article is available that includes a comparison of children's
longer-term adjustment in father-custody and mother-custody homes as item
CR03, along with other articles you may find interesting:
URL: http://home.att.net/~rawars/shopcart.htm

Outlining the "positive effects of paternal involvement on both sons' and
daughters' educational and occupational mobility" is the following book:
"How fathers care for the next generation: A four-decade study" Snarey, J.
R. (1993). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. A synopsis is available,
for which free registration is required:
URL:
http://www.fathersdirect.com/fatherwork/focus/Default.asp?page=news&sub=92&i
d=380
This book can be purchased at Amazon.com for $45:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067440940X/qid=1055574562/sr=8
-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-6612219-7417430?v=glance&s=books&n=507846


Some who may be willing to help in your research:

The Fathers Custody Center includes an email hotline for advice
:
URL: http://www.fatherscustody.org/

A Yahoo Group for "those interested in preserving the rights of dads in
family court:"
URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/altdadsrights/

Psychologists who defend fathers and sell an information kit:
URL: http://www.custodydispute411.com/


Search Strategy (on Google):
"father custody"
"father custody results"
"paternal custody"
"social research"


--
Convictions cause convicts.

[Kenneth S.]

The information below is by no means new. However, it's interesting and
useful to see it pulled together all in one place.

It is truly astonishing that, despite boatloads of research indicating
that father absence is extremely damaging to children, and to society (of
which women form a part) as well, nothing is done in the U.S. to reflect
this fact in public policy and in the law. So we continue to have have easy
divorce laws, with the great majority of divorces initiated by mothers who
WANT to establish fatherless families. And we continue to have "child
support" and community property laws that tell mothers that, if they break
up their families, their ex-husbands will be forced to subsidize them
heavily. Plus, we continue to have the glass ceiling on paternal custody,
which gives mothers a virtual guarantee of control over the children after
divorce.

In truth, the lunatics have taken control of the asylum. We cannot hope
that politicians and judges (who in the U.S. are just another form of
politician) will make decisions that are in the interests of children or in
the interests of society at large. They will continue to respond to
whichever special interest group has enough clout to intimidate them. All
we can hope is that men will speak out, and become a special interest group
sufficiently powerful to defeat the feminists.


"AZ Astrea" > wrote in message
...
> I found this on another group and thought you guys would find it
> interesting.
>
> ~AZ~
>
> adview?id=217132
>
> *QUESTION:*
>
> I need any research that has been done that describes the results of
fathers
> having custody of their young children. The results I'm concerned with
are
> the psychological, emotional, and educational performace of the children
who
> are raised by fathers. The purpose of this is to prove in a custody case
> that there is data to support that children are well taken care of by
> fathers.
>
>
> *ANSWER:*
>
> Thanks for an interesting question.
>
>
> There's volumes of research on this topic, so I've focused on articles
that
> offer an overview of the studies.
>
> A wealth of statistics about increased likelihoods of deviant behavior for
> children in fatherless homes:
> URL: http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/stats.htm
>
> "Children whose fathers are involved in raising them do better in school,
> are less likely to get into trouble with the law, and are more likely to
be
> better parents themselves" from "Fathers Matter" by Jayne Keedle:
> URL: http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/fathersmatter.htm
>
> The SPARC articles archive in general is potentially useful:
> URL: http://www.deltabravo.net/custody/articles.htm
>
> "18 percent of the families headed by a single father live in poverty,
> although that is still far below the rate for families headed by single
> mothers, about 43 percent" from a NYTimes article "changing the
> Single-Parent Mix:"
> URL: http://www.dadsrights.org/articles/nytimes.893.html
>
> Anne Mitchell, director of Fathers' Rights and Equality Exchange testimony
> to the California Focus on Fathers Summit:
> URL: http://www.dadsrights.org/testimony/summitapm.html
>
> There are also other articles from Fathers' Rights and Equality Exchange
you
> may find of interest:
> URL: http://www.dadsrights.org/articles/articles.html
>
> A report to the US Commission on Child & Family Welfare is available here:
> URL: http://users.erols.com/afc/usccfw.html
>
> Of particular interest are the following:
>
> "A wealth of research studies have now been conducted to strengthen the
> conclusion that divorce, single parenting, and father absence are strongly
> related to adverse child and adolescent outcomes."
> URL: http://users.erols.com/afc/minority1.htm
>
> "The consequences of father absence for children are typically
> detrimental... Whether from too little time with even one parent, too
little
> income, or both, children too often suffer."
> URL: http://users.erols.com/afc/majority2.htm
>
> "85% of prisoners, 78% of high school dropouts, 82% of teenage girls who
> become pregnant, the majority of drug and alcohol abusers -- all come from
> single-mother-headed households. Less than 1% of any of these categories
> come from single-father-headed households."
> URL: http://users.erols.com/afc/ourf.html
>
> "Children in single-father care are more likely to enjoy positive
> relationships with both their mothers and their fathers than are children
> with single mothers" from "The Role of the Father After Divorce:"
> URL:
>
http://www.futureofchildren.org/information2827/information_show.htm?doc_id=
> 75610
>
> "Fatherless children are more likely to drop out of school, have poorer
> attendance records, score lower grades, and abuse alcohol or drugs
compared
> with children whose fathers are in their homes" from The Future Of
> Children's Fast Facts:
> URL: http://www.futureofchildren.org/info-url2832/info-url_list.htm
>
> "Fathers' involvement in their children's schools has a distinct and
> independent influence on many of these outcomes, even after controlling
for
> potentially confounding factors such as the parents' education, household
> income, and, in two-parent families, the mothers' involvement" from the
> executive summary of National Center for Education Statistics' Statistical
> Analysis Report: Fathers' Involvement in Their Children's Schools:
> URL: http://nces.ed.gov/pubs98/fathers/
>
> "A Yale study found that infants living only with their fathers were two
to
> six months ahead of other infants in personal and social skills, and that
> older babies in father-care exhibited similar advantages. Another survey
> found that boys in father-custody homes have higher self-esteem, are more
> mature, more independent, and less demanding than boys in mother-custody
> homes. A recent Danish study comparing toddlers in single mom and single
dad
> homes found that the father care children had fewer temper tantrums, were
> less-sensitive to criticism, less fearful, less likely to feel lonely, and
> more likely to have high self-esteem."
> URL: http://www.glennsacks.com/father_care_the.htm
>
> "A meta-analysis of 171 studies comparing mothers' and fathers' parenting
> found few significant differences" from "The Many Meanings of Family and
the
> Role of Fathers:"
> URL: http://www.aboutourkids.org/articles/manymeanings.html#presence
>
>
> Additionally, some resources are available for a cost.
>
> A $6 journal article is available that includes a comparison of children's
> longer-term adjustment in father-custody and mother-custody homes as item
> CR03, along with other articles you may find interesting:
> URL: http://home.att.net/~rawars/shopcart.htm
>
> Outlining the "positive effects of paternal involvement on both sons' and
> daughters' educational and occupational mobility" is the following book:
> "How fathers care for the next generation: A four-decade study" Snarey, J.
> R. (1993). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. A synopsis is
available,
> for which free registration is required:
> URL:
>
http://www.fathersdirect.com/fatherwork/focus/Default.asp?page=news&sub=92&i
> d=380
> This book can be purchased at Amazon.com for $45:
>
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/067440940X/qid=1055574562/sr=8
> -1/ref=sr_8_1/103-6612219-7417430?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>
>
> Some who may be willing to help in your research:
>
> The Fathers Custody Center includes an email hotline for advice
> :
> URL: http://www.fatherscustody.org/
>
> A Yahoo Group for "those interested in preserving the rights of dads in
> family court:"
> URL: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/altdadsrights/
>
> Psychologists who defend fathers and sell an information kit:
> URL: http://www.custodydispute411.com/
>
>
> Search Strategy (on Google):
> "father custody"
> "father custody results"
> "paternal custody"
> "social research"
>
>
> --
> Convictions cause convicts.
>
>