Statistics from "What Can the Federal Government Do To Decrease Crime and Revitalize Communities?" by U.S. Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs National Institute of Justice Executive Office for Weed and Seed January 5-7, 1998

• Sixty-three percent of youth suicides are from fatherless homes.
• Ninety percent of all homeless and runaway youths are from fatherless homes.
• Eighty-five percent of children who exhibit behavioral disorders are from fatherless homes.
• Seventy-one percent of high school dropouts are from fatherless homes.
• Seventy percent of youths in State institutions are from fatherless homes. 
• Seventy-five percent of adolescent patients in substance abuse centers are from fatherless homes. 
• Eighty-five percent of rapists motivated by displaced anger are from fatherless homes.

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