The effect of fathers\u27 absence on families

Although an annual event in this country is the celebration of Father\u27s Day, but many of the statistics uncovered by the author of this paper show a civilization which is rapidly becoming a fatherless society. Never before have so many men abandoned their children. In 1986, this country crossed an important landmark--for the first time in this nation\u27s history a majority of poor families were father absent (U. s. Bureau of Census on Poverty, 1992)