Can Mentoring Save Single-Parent Children?
Expert Reveals How a “Turnaround Summer” Can Make The Difference The dangers for single-parent children have only been exacerbated by a recession that has forced children in single-parent households to spend more time alone while mom or dad spends extra time at work. According to the National Center on Health Statistics, single-parent children are at risk for a wide variety of problems in later life. • Fatherless children are 100 to 200 percent more likely to have emotional and behavioral problems. • Fatherless sons are 300 percent more likely to be incarcerated in state juvenile institutions. • Fatherless men are 35 percent more likely to experience marital failure. • Fatherless daughters are 92 percent more likely to fail in their own marriages. • Eighty-five percent of children who exhibit anti-social behavior disorders are from fatherless homes. One expert, who was mentored himself at an early age, believes that mentoring – from inside or outside of a child’s family – can help fill
