When dads are present and actively engaged in raising their kids, their children, on average…
- Have better, healthier relationships
- Make wiser decisions about relationships
- Less inclined to have sexual relations too young
- Seven times less likely to get pregnant as a teenager
- Therefore, reduce the number of births, abortions and STDs among teens
- Have better emotional health and control
- More likely to be non-aggressive toward others
- Four time less likely to be prone to anxiety or depression
- Less likely to have behavioral and emotional difficulties
- Therefore, contribute to a more peaceful and safer schools and community
- Have better physical health
- Twice as likely to be physically fit
- Probably more likely to be breastfed
- Two times less likely to be a victim of sudden infant death syndrome
- Therefore, contribute to a healthier community, reducing health care costs
- Are less likely to become addicted to substances
- Less inclined to use and abuse alcohol
- Less prone to use and abuse drugs
- Less likely to become depressed, which sometimes leads to addictive behavior
- Therefore, reducing the community’s costs for treatment, recovery, and rehabilitation
- Are more likely to feel safe and more confident
- Ten times less likely to suffer physical or emotional abuse
- Six times less probable that they will suffer neglect
- Therefore, increasing children’s sense of wellbeing, and their chances of success in life
- Have better odds of academic success
- More likely to get top grades
- Two time less likely to repeat a grace
- Two times less like to drop out of high school
- Less likely to be suspended or expelled
- Therefore, their individual as well as the overall school performance improves
- More likely to stay out of trouble
- Less like to engage in risky behavior
- Less prone to commit a crime
- Less likely to prison
- Therefore, will not have a criminal record, which can make it difficult to get a good job.
- Therefore, reduces the costs of policing, criminal justice and the incarceration
- Less likely to be poor
- Four times less likely to live in poverty at some time in their youth
- Two times less likely to experience poverty as adults
- Therefore, reducing the community’s charitable and government costs of providing goods and services for the poor