1900 TO 1960
CATEGORY
/STATISTIC
/CITE
CHILD ABUSEFATHER ABANDONMENT
FATHERLESSNESS (ROF) / 1960= 5.1 Million
% COURT AWARDS TO FATHER
# “DEADBEAT DADS”
% CUSTODY OF FATHERS
% COURT AWARDS TO MOTHER
# “DEADBEAT MOMS”
% CUSTODY OF MOTHER
# FATHERS IMPRISONED
% FATHERS IMPRISONED DUE TO FALSE ABUSE ALLEGATIONS (Est)
# MOTHERS IMPRISONED
WIFE BEATINGS
CHILDHOOD CRIME
WELFARE COSTS
WELFARE’S COMPARABLE JOB WAGES IN PRIVATE INDUSTRY
DIVORCE RATE
SINGLE FEMALE HEADED HOUSEHLD
CHILDHOOD CRIME
GANGS
CHILDHOOD DRUG USE
CHILD INSTITUTIONS
TEENAGE PREGNANCIES
TEENAGE SUICIDE
TEENAGE PROSTITUTION
CHILD MOLESTATION
CHILD RUNAWAYS
CHILD HUNGER
PRISON POPULATION
UNEMPLOYMENT
IRS DEFAULTS
FAMILY SAVINGS
NATIONAL SAVINGS
NATIONAL DEBT
% WEALTH OF CITIZENS
% WEALTH OF ELITE
ADMINISTRATIVE CRIMINALS
PRIVATE INDUSTRY JOBS
GOVERNMENT JOBS
GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS
ADULT DRUG USE
COURT CASES PER % POP.
POLICE PER % OF POP
CHILD SEIZURES
DIVORCE RATE
LAWYERS % OF POP.
JUDGES % OF POP
HIGH SCHOOL GRADS
HIGH SCHOOL DROP-OUTS
SAT SCORES
MONIES COLLECTED BY GOV’T.
MONIES OWED BY FATHERS
MONIES OWNED BY MOTHERS
% OF FUNDS COLLECTED FOR USE IN TOTAL COUNTY BUDGETS
MONEY COLLECTED BY FEDS
2 / POST-Radical FEMINIST STATISTICS /1960 TO 1998
CATEGORY
/STATISTIC
/CITE
CHILD ABUSE
CHILD ABUSE
/ 1.)1980 = 62% Abusers are Mothers2..) 1995 = 3,200,000 REPORTS of Child Abuse and neglect.
- 16% incorporated sex abuse
- Of those, 75% were deemed unfounded, without foundation
- 1995 depicted that 6.5 Million children had access to only 1 parent due to false child abuse charges.
- 49% abused by mothers
- 31% abused by fathers
- 85% mothers neglected children
4 to 11 category = boys were 55% of victims.
4.)The idea of women being violent is a hard thing for many people to believe. It goes against the stereotype of the passive and helpless female. This, in spite of the fact that women are known to be more likely than men to commit child abuse and child murder (Daly & Wilson 1988 report 54% of parent-child murderers where the child is under 17 were committed by the mother in Canada between 1974 and 1983, for instance. The Statistical Abstract of the United States 1987 reports that of reported child maltreatment cases between 1980 and 1984 between 57% and 61.4% of these were perpetrated by the mother. Nagi 1977 found 53.1% of perpetrators were female, 21% Male, and 22.5% both.
5.)“In September 1989, a Social Service Officer in Milwaukee County, by name Terrence Cooley, wrote an inter-office communication titled “AFDC/Child Abuse Information,” a copy of which found its way into the editorial office of The Family in America pointing out that of the 1,050 cases of child abuse and neglect in that county, an astonishing 83 percent occurred in households receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children (read: female-headed households.)”
6.) While 1.8 women annually suffered one or more assaults from a husband
or boyfriend, 2 million men are assaulted by a wife or girlfriend, according to the 1986 study. The study also found that 54% of all violence termed "severe" was by women.
7.) Their Survey, sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, found
that 84% of American families are not violent. In the 16% of families that
do experience violence, the vast majority of that violence takes the form
of slapping, shoving, and grabbing. Only 3-4% of all families (a total of
about 1.8 million) engage in ""severe'' violence: kicking, punching, or / 1.)1980 = Strauss M.A., Gelles, R.J. & Steinmetz Susan I., Behind Closed Doors: Violence in American Families. Doubleday N.Y. 1980)
2.)Dean Tong author “Ashes to Ashes, …Families to dust.” And “Don’t Blame Me Daddy”
3.)1994 – The Toronto Institute for the Prevention of Child Abuse.
4.)1977 – Nagi, Saad Child Maltreatment in the United States, Columbia University Press, Newy York, p. 47, 1977. Statistical Abstracts of the United States 1987, table 277.
5.)Dr. Daniel Amneus, The Garbage Generation, Primrose Press, Alhambra CA, 1991. Page 86
6.) Per Judith Sherven, Ph.D. and James Sniechowski, Ph.D. WOMEN
ARE RESPONSIBLE, TOO
7.) The Battered Statistic Syndrome by Armin A. Brott -- appeared in the
Washington Post, July, 1994
CUSTODY OF CHILDREN IN TWO PARENT HOUSEHOLDS
CUSTODY OF CHILDREN IN TWO PARENT HOUSEHOLDS / 1.)1996= 69% Children with 2 Parents
2.)National Association of Elementary School Principals: “One-parent children, on the whole, show lower achievement in school than their two-parent peers….Among all two-parent children, 30 percent were ranked as high achievers, compared with only 12 percent of one-parent children. At the other end of the scale, the situation is reversed. Only 2 percent of two-parent children are low achievers---while fully 40 percent of one-parent children fell in that category.”
3.)Average income of 2 parent families is $43,000, versus $17,500 for female-headed "families" / 1.)U.S. Bureau of the Census 1996. “Although judicial pronouncements have exposed gender neutrality in terms of parental custody (McIntyre & Sussman 1995, Westfall 1994, Weyrauch & Katz 1983), the reality is that more children are living with neither parent (4%) than with father-only (3%) (69% of children are living with two parents and 24% of the children are living with mother only) (U.S. Bureau of the Census 1996).
2.)(The Most Significant Minority: One-Parent Children in the Schools, quoted in Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Family and Nation, p. 92)
3.) Tony Chipelow, Casey Foundation
FATHER ABANDONMENT
/ 1.)40% of children who live in fatherless homes have not seen their father for at least a year.2.)90% of all fathers subordinated to Non-custodial parent will lose all contact with their children within 5 years.
3.)40% of children in fatherless homes have not seen their fathers for more than 1 year. 58% have never been in their fathers homes. / 1.) (“State of Fatherhood, Father Facts, quoted in McKenzie October, 1997)
2.)
3.) Wade Horn, National Fatherhood Initiative
FATHERLESSNESS (ROF) / 1.)In the United States alone, 23 million children grow up without a father.
2.)Cindy Loose: “Fatherlessness repeatedly shows up in studies as a leading indicator for a plethora of societal problems: infant mortality, alcohol and drug abuse, criminality, low test scores, depression---even suicide.”
3.)National Fatherhood Initiative: “Almost 40% of America’s children will go to sleep in a house where their biological father does not live.
4.)“Women’s de-regulation of themselves by achieving economic and sexual independence can wreck the system. The ghettos show how easily this can happen. The wrecking of the system is rapidly spreading from the ghettos to the larger society, where the legal system has become patriarchy’s chief enemy, expelling half of society’s fathers from their homes.” / 1.)
2.)(Los Angeles Times, 15 January, 1998)
3.)National Fatherhood Initiative.
4.) The Garbage Generation, Dr. Daniel Amneus Phd., Primrose Press, Alhambra, CA. P. 38.
% COURT AWARDS TO FATHER
% COURT AWARDS TO FATHER / 1.)Maggie Gallagher: “Marriage is one of the few contracts in which the law explicitly protects the defaulting party at the expense of his or her partner.”
2.)“In America a woman can undertake a long journey in safety,"
3.)Even in cases where both parents agree to joint custody, 33% are awarded to the custody of the mother anyway, and even in cases where both parents agree to father custody, 13% are awarded to the custody of the mother. / 1.)(The Abolition of Marriage, p. 150)
2.)Alex de Touqueville, Democracy in America
3.) Anne Mitchell of F.R.E.E.
# “DEADBEAT DADS”
DEADBEAT DADS
/ 1.) The PFS pilot experience ... lays bare several sobering realities about thepotential of 'enforcement only' strategies for increasing (financial) child
support collections from the parents of AFDC children. ... The hard truth is that
many noncustodial parents do not pay because they have no income. Before
they can pay, they need jobs.
2.) A study by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison found that "dead-beat dads" were really impoverished
dads. In their comprehensive study, they found that "... 52% of the nonpaying
fathers had incomes of less than $6,155 per year ... ."
3.) Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 11:20:47 –0500 Reply-To: David Garrod [
Subject: Commentary on CS study (2nd Attempt)
There is a strong correlation between compliance and ability to pay: e.g.
INCOME CS PAID IN FULL
$6,155 9%
$6,155- $12,309 28%
$12,310 - $18,464 45%
$18,466 60%
This is a known correlation, since the GAO report that stated that 66% of all unpaid child support is because of inability to pay.
The other correlation, which I have always suspected, but had no data on previously, is an economic response to a feeling of injustice. Look at full compliance with CS as a percentage of income.... (For all income over $6,155)
CS as % of income CS paid in full
15% 46%
15 – 20% 29%
20% 11%
I think this clearly shows that if an NCP perceives the child support order to be excessive, he refuses to pay, regardless of his ability to pay. Just plain old economic theory at work again!
David Garrod Posted by: (Bronis Vidugiris)
4.) "62% of custodial mothers do not receive child support. However, of that number, three-fourths of
them simply do want child support, have not asked for it, have accepted other financial
arrangements instead of child support, or the father does not have the money. Only 11% of those
custodial mothers who do not receive child support, is because of 'deadbeat dads'."
5.) From the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madision bu Judi Bartfeld and
Daniel Meyer. Study looked at the relationship between ability to pay, enforcement, and compliance in
NONmarital child support cases. (I would believe nonmarital would be the hardest to collect since the NCP often did not want to be a parent.)
They check 700 cases where the income was known through income tax records.
N$ Pay 0 PartPay PayinFull Earn< 6,155 172 33% 58% 9%
$6K-$12K 218 11% 61% 28%
$12K-18K 153 9% 46% 45%
> $18,464 172 8% 32% 60%
As a percent of income owed to compliance...that is if child support of over 20% of your $6,155 what are the odds of payment?
< 15% 459 9% 45% 46%
15-20% 66 9% 62% 29%
>20% 190 31% 59% 11%
As the amount of child support as a percent of income increases the number who pay nothing increases. (They have to run to keep a roof over their heads.) / 1.)[Gordon Berlin, Senior VP, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation. Subcommittee on Human Resources, House Ways and Means Committee. March 15, 1994.]
2.)Institute on Poverty, University of Wisconsin-Madison. [18 Dallas Morning News, pg. 5. April 26, 1993.]
4.) Mens Issues Page, cited: David Garrod [
4.) I.B.I.D.
5.) Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin
% CUSTODY OF FATHERS
Custodial mothers who receive a support award: 79.6%
Custodial fathers who receive a support award: 29.9%
Non-custodial mothers who totally default on support: 46.9%
Non-custodial fathers who totally default on support: 26.9%
Non-custodial mothers who pay support at any level: 20.0%
Non-custodial fathers who pay support at any level: 61.0%
Single mothers who work less than full time: 66.2%
Single fathers who work less than full time: 10.2%
Single mothers who work more than 44 hours per week: 7.0%
Single fathers who work more than 44 hours per week: 24.5%
Single mothers who receive public assistance: 46.2%
Single fathers who receive public assistance: 20.8%
Soource: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42, U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, Office of Income Security Policy, Oct., 1991; Authors:
Meyer and Garansky
% CUSTODY OF FATHERS
% CUSTODY OF FATHERS / 1.) 1994= 10.1% Fathers have custody
2.) 1996= 12.7% Fathers have custody
3.)Samuel Osherson: “The interviews I have had with men in their 30s and 40s convince me that the psychological or physical absence of fathers from their families is one of the great underestimated tragedies of our times.”
4.)“Fatherlessness is probably the single most important factor in the rising juvenile delinquency rate, Popenoe said
5.)Susan B. Anthony: “Don’t you break the law every time you help a slave to Canada? Well, the law that gives the father the sole ownership of the children is just as wicked, and I’ll break it just as quickly. You would die before you would deliver a slave to his master, and I will die before I will give up the child to its father.”
6.)Riane Eisler: “Since the institution of the family functions as both a social model and a microcosm of the larger society, feminists have always perceived that no real change in the status of women is possible unless the patriarchal family is replaced. But it is precisely because the whole structure of patriarchy rests so heavily on the institution of the family that any challenge to it is perceived as a fundamental threat. The patriarchal family is protected by a formidable alignment of religious dogma, legal sanction, and economic constraints, so that while it receives support from practically every existing social mechanism, alternative family forms are considered ‘abnormal’ and receive no support at all.” / 1.)17th Report of the Office of Child Support
2.)19th Report to the OCSE
[Maccoby and Mnookin, “Dividing the Child”, Harvard Universtity Press. 1995
3.) (Quoted in James Nelson, The Intimate Connection, p. 119)
4.) Popenoe .” (12 June, 1992)
5.) (quoted in Phyllis Chesler, Patriarchy, p. 38)
6.) (Dissolution, pp. 139f.)
# “DEADBEAT MOMS”
% COURT AWARDS TO MOTHER / 1.)Rickie Solinger: “This study aims to argue most forcefully--both implicitly and explicitly—that politicians and others in the United States have been using women’s bodies and their reproductive capacity for a long time to promote political agendas hostile to female autonomy....”
2.)Feminists don’t so much want economic “independence” as they want economic dependence on alimony, child support payments, affirmative action and the rest--because they want to withdraw the sexual loyalty which gives the man his provider role and motivates him to be a high achiever. The woman wishes to be independent so that she may escape from the “tyranny of the family” and its sexual regulation of her. / 1.)(Wake Up Little Susie, p. 19)
2.) Dr. Daniel Amneus, Case for Father Custody (Pre-Release Book copy)
% CUSTODY OF MOTHERS
% CUSTODY OF MOTHERS / 1.)1994= 89.2% Mothers have custody
2.)1996= 87.3% Mothers have custody
3.)The number of children living only with mothers grew from 5.1 million in 1960 to over 17 million today
4.)“Mother-custody has been the choice of divorce courts for a century. It is, as the foregoing paragraphs show, a tried-and-failed arrangement. It does not benefit women. It drags them into poverty and depression.” P. 113
5.) Andrew Payton Thomas: “Single parents in general are far more likely, by the mere fact of that status, to raise children who have trouble obeying the law. Seventy percent of juvenile offenders come from single-parent homes....17 percent of children raised by never-married mothers are suspended or expelled from school, 11 percent of children from divorced families draw the same sanctions.” / 1.) 17th Report of the Office of Child Support
2.)19th Report to the OCSE
[Maccoby and Mnookin, “Dividing the Child”, Harvard Universtity Press. 1995
3.) (“State of Fatherhood, Father Facts, quoted in McKenzie October, 1997)
4.)Dr. Daniel Amneus, The Garbage Generation, Primrose Press, Alhambra, CA. [1991] p. 113.
5.) (Crime and the Sacking of America, p. 161)
# FATHERS IMPRISONED / 1.) UNEQUAL INCARCERATION RATES Prison incarceration rates of men for Equivalent crimes are up to 5 times that of women, and men receive prison sentences which are 2 or more times longer for the exact same crime. For example, out of 92,490 accusations of rape in 1988, fully 51,431 of these charges were PROVEN to be false, while 15,562 men were imprisoned. A false charge of rape does far more damage than many of the alleged rape themselves, yet not one single conviction for filing a false police report and/or perjury has been identified. Compensation for this unequal application of the laws requires federal programs to ensure that the estimated 50,000 women who file FALSE charges EVERY YEAR are punished as severely as those they falsely accuse.
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Moreover, convicted husbands were more likely to receive a term of imprisonment (94 percent of the husbands vs. 81 percent of the wives), and the average prison sentence for husbands was much longer--16 years for husbands vs. 6 years for wives. / 1.) FATHERS MANIFESTO © Web page URL=
% FATHERS IMPRISONED DUE TO FALSE ABUSE ALLEGATIONS (Est) / 1.)1987 = Most cases of false allegations involve mothers falsely accusing fathers.
2.)61-65% of child abuse accusations are found to be unfounded or false. In contested divorce cases with issues of child custody, the false accusation rate has reached 80%.
3.)60-80% of child abuse accusations are found to be false or unfounded. / 1.)Dullea, 1987 (New York Times), Zweig, 1987 (Lost Angeles Times).
2.)David S. Gil, Bradeis University, Massachusettes, 1985.
3.) V.O.C.A.L. (Victims of Child Abuse Legislation)
# MOTHERS IMPRISONED / 1.)Three times the amount of women default on Child Support than men.
2.)“Who are the women in prison?…More than half are single mothers living on welfare”
3.)Prosecutors sometimes don't prosecute; juries rarely convict; those found guilty almost never go to jail. Barbara Kirwin, a forensic psychologist, reports that in nearly 300 cases of women charged with neonaticide in the United States and Britain, no woman spent more than a night in jail. / 1.)SB 95-15
2.)Phyllis Chesler, Mothers on Trial: The Battle for Children and Custody (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986)p.291.
3.)NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE [November 2, 1997], EVOLUTION and the Prom Mom, by Steven Pinker
CHILDHOOD ABDUCTIONS
/ 1.) Kidnapping: family abductions were 163,200 compared to non-family abductions of 200-300, attributed to the parents' disenchantment with the legal system. / 1.) C.O.P.’s Statistic’s (Coalition of Parent Support)CHILDHOOD CRIME
/ 1.)The criminal class doesn’t suffer from other-deprivation. Mom has stinted nothing—she has given her all to the criminal class. Criminals have many problems, but mother-deprivation is not one of them.2.)“…Professor Sampson established not only that single-parent households are likely targets for crime, but that the neighbors of signle-parent households are more likely to be hit by crime than the neighbors of the two-parent households. He concludes both that ‘single-adult households suffer a victimization risk higher than two-adult households’ and that ‘living in areas characterized by a high proportion of [single adult] house-holds significantly increases burglary risk’ for all types of households.”
3.)“The Hon. S.L. Vavuris, Judge of the San Francisco Superior Court, stated in open Court that ’90 percent of all of the children in trouble are from broken homes’
4.)“A study by Stanford Univeristy’s Center of the Study of Youth Development in 1985 indicated that children in single-parent families headed by mothers have higher arrest rates, more disciplinary problems in school, and a greter tendency to smoke and run away from home than do their peers who live with both natural parents—no matter what their income, race, or ethnicity.” / 1.)Dr. Daniel Amneus, The Garbage Generation: Primrose Press, Alhambra, CA. (1991) p. 153.