Fatherless Kids More Likely to Suffer Mental Health Problems

Fathering Magazine, Jan 24, 2003

Fatherless Kids More Likely to Suffer Mental Health Problems

There have been several studies finding that children from single parent homes (mostly single mother homes) are more at risk. But this is the first study that covers almost an entire national population and takes into account social factors that could distort the outcome.

Even after adjusting the data to statistically eliminate economic differences, children with single parents were still twice as likely to have psychiatric disorders, attempt suicide, and abuse alcohol, and three to four times more likely to use narcotic drugs.

(--The Lancet, 25 January 2003)

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