Fathers Protect Kids & Communities from Abuse & Crime

[Globalist]

<p>Hey all,</p>

<p>Happy Father’s Day. In honor of this day, I’ve included an except from a recent study about fathers. </p>

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Want to increase the odds that girls won’t be abused, boys won’t land in prison, and neighborhoods won’t be rife with crime? Make sure there is a biological or adoptive father, married to the mother of his children, in every household.</p>

<p>According to research by University of Virginia assistant professor of sociology W. Bradford Wilcox, men play a distinctive and often unrecognized role in protecting their children and their communities. “Children who grow up with their fathers in a married household are significantly less likely to be sexually abused, to end up in prison or to become pregnant as a teenager,” Wilcox said. “Communities that have lots of fathers at home are markedly safer than communities where fathers are absent from the home.”</p>

<p>The protective qualities of fathers are highlighted in “Why Marriage Matters, Second Edition: Twenty-Six Conclusions from the Social Sciences,” a report recently published by the Institute for American Values that summarizes social scientific literature on marriage and fatherhood. The report was co-authored by Wilcox with 15 other leading family scholars in sociology, psychology, economics and anthropology. </p>

<p>Here are four findings from the report…

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<p>The rest of the article is here.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2006/20060615wilcoxdads.html[/url]”>http://www.virginia.edu/topnews/releases2006/20060615wilcoxdads.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;