I am continuing to build a website which compiles all of the data on what men face in society and how it directly correlates to the suicide epidemic among men in America and world wide (40,000 a year in America).

Currently I have twenty items on the consequences of not having a father or the benefits of having a father. I would like to have least thirty. If I can get more then even better. I won't post my reference list because I have tons of other sources intermixed in it. Below is the list, I appreciate your help!

Updated: Need five more

#1. In the year 2020 - 15.3 million children in America live within fatherless homes (Bureau).

#2. 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (U.S. Dept. Of Health/Census) – 5 times the average. (Research and statistics)

#3. Even for children who have a father the average time that a school boy gets to spend with his dad is 30 minutes a week for one on one conversations. (The America First Policy Institute (AFPI))

#4. Children living in female-headed families with no spouse present had a poverty rate of 47.6 percent, over 4 times the rate in married-couple families. (The consequences of fatherlessness)#5. Children with active fathers in their education were more likely to get A’s in school (National Center for Education Statistics--NCES--what's new at the website)

#6. Children in fatherless homes are far more likely to become victims of physical and sexual abuse (Jerrod Brown)#7. Children who had a father who spoke with authority to their kids showed a greatly reduced chance of becoming obese and were more athletically fit (Jerrod Brown)

#8. Boys engage in sex earlier and have a higher risk of contracting STD’s following divorce. (Anderson)

#9. Children of divorced parents are more likely to abandon their faith. (Anderson)

#10. Children of two parent households end up having higher levels of income when they become adults (Anderson)

#11. Children of two parent households have less emergency room visits then other types of family structures (Anderson)

#12. The risk of being abused or neglected doubled in single parent households (Anderson).

#13. Children who grow up in single parent households were more then twice as likely to experience a serious psychiatric disorder, commit suicide, or develop an alcohol addiction (Anderson).

#14. 63% of all suicides nationwide come from single parent households, and 70% of those who are gang members, who drop out of highschool, and are substance abusers come from a home without a father (Ahlberg)

#15. Children from fatherless homes were less likely to vote, almost all used some type of welfare assistance, 71% were more likely to have committed a crime, and far less likely to have graduated from college (Anderson)

#16. In 2013 1 in 30 American children were homeless compared to 1% of homeless families in 1988. Domestic violence, sexual abuse, and other types of violence is widespread among this demographic of absent fathers among the African American community (Child homelessness: A growing crisis)

#17. Children without fathers consisted of 85% of youth in prison and 80% of rapists with anger problems who came from fatherless homes (Research and Statistics)

#18. Children with active fathers act out less often, do not tell as many lies, and are less depressed. (Appreciating how fathers give children a head start)#19. 75% of adolescent patients in substance abuse centers come from fatherless homes (Statistics on Fatherless Children in America 2019)

#20. The presence of a father provides protection for their children to not become depressed, to develop resiliency, and to reduce the risk of mood disorders. (Teel et al.)

#21. Father involvement enhances cognitive development, social competence, and fewer depressive symptoms (Dubowitz et al.)

#22. Kids with a father show a statistically significant impact on cognitive development (Rollè et al.)

#23. A fathers dietary intake, food availability, and parenting style directly impacts their children's eating behavior and the child’s food sources (Litchford et al.)

#24. As fatherlessness grows, crime and community disintegration also grows, absence fathers directly contribute to the growth of welfare programs and stunt the creation of jobs in the communities; it increases sexually predatory behavior, births from wedlock, and domestic violence. Father engagement also reduced gang involvement and drug involvement in the community (What can the federal government do to decrease crime and revitalize ...)

#25. *"Father hunger " often afflicts boys ages one and two whose fathers are suddenly and permanently absent. Sleep disturbances, such as trouble falling asleep, nightmares, and night terrors frequently begin within one to three months after the father leaves home. (Divorce and Fatherhood statistics)