“Father deprivation is a more reliable predictor of criminal activity than race, environment or poverty. Father-deprived children are 72% of all teenage murderers, 60% of rapists, 70% of kids incarcerated, twice as likely to quit school, 11 times more likely to be violent, 3 of 4 teen suicides, 80% of the adolescents in psychiatric hospitals, and 90% of runaways.” — Canadian Children’s Rights Council
EQUAL SHARED PARENTING
- Men face strong legal biases in awards of child custody and parental requests to relocate. As a result, fathers represent only 15.7% of all single parent households (UN Women, page 63)
- Articles:
- Child Abuse: Compared to two-parent families, children in single-parent households face a much higher risk of abuse and neglect:
- United Kingdom (Source: Broken Homes and Battered Children):
- 14-fold higher risk of experiencing serious child abuse
- 7-fold higher risk of suffering fatal child abuse
- United States (Source: National Incidence Study, page 162):
- 77% greater risk of being harmed by physical abuse
- 87% greater risk of being harmed by physical neglect
- 74% greater risk of being harmed by emotional neglect
- United Kingdom (Source: Broken Homes and Battered Children):
- Shared Parenting Reduces Domestic Violence:
- Videos:
- Press Releases:
Strategies and Solutions:
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- Participate in International Shared Parenting Day, which is held each year on April 26.
- Video: Adopting Model Legislation for Equal Shared Parenting
- All-Party Parliamentary Group: Better Outcomes for the Children of Separating Parents