"As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit

of the children, the people will happily endure almost any

curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation."
Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler

In such a light the following deprivations and atrocities must be viewed.

Destruction of Families and Children Under The Color Of

Law
By
Courts, County Prosecutors, "Child Services" Agencies and
other Officials [collectively referred to as the
"Perpetrators"] of All 50 States of the United States
Through
The Title IV-D (42 US Code 651 et seq.) Criminal Fraud
And Under the false pretext of "Child Support"
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Table of Contents:

1- Notes: Some preliminary and background information.

2- The Damage to the Family and Children And Crimes By Officials

and Judiciary: Through crimes under the Color of Law by officials and judiciary of all
50 states of United States in their official capacity.

3- Pre-amble to the Links: to Official Supporting Evidence, Statistics and

Reports.

4- Links: to Official Supporting Evidence, Statistics and Reports.

5- Further statistics: In Support of The Assertions Herein.

6- Contact Information.

1- Notes
This is an except of an article on unlawfulness, unconstitutionality and amorality of
the criminal acts by state judges, county prosecutors, "Child Services" agencies and
other officials to maximize their financial profits through using Title IV-D (42 US Code
651 et seq.) incentives from US federal government which destroys families and
children's lives while fraudulently siphoning the tax payers' money into their own
coffers, while leaving hundreds of thousands, if not million, of children without their
fathers and mothers.

This response is to the boasts by states officials, courts and county prosecutors who
brag about their (criminal and amoral actions) increasing the "child support" collection.
Specifically, it was written to refute and respond to Bruce A. Wells, Elkhart county
deputy prosecutor, Indiana, USA.

[N.B. The only parts in this article that pertain only to the state of Indiana alone are the 3
specific figures of 33.4%. 22.2% and 22.2% profit shares of the county prosecutors,
court's and counties' general budgets. The rest, in one shape or form, are applicable to
all states of the US.]

Although the term "child support" is whimsically used by the officials, what they are
concerned about is NOT the support for the affected children, but the support that
courts, state officials and agencies help themselves to fraudulently under the false
pretense of supporting children. Hence, in refusing to dignify their false and misleading
terms, this article uses quotation marks in referring to the said money collections as
"child support".

See the statistics below and also follow the links in the file For further evidence,
government statistics and reports confirming the said crimes, profiteering and the
damage to children and families by the perpetrators
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2- The Damage to the Family and Children And Crimes By

Officials and Judiciary

i - that he [the county prosecutor] boasts about "child support" collection (which is for
public consumption), but he does not mention the $$100,000,000.00s federal incentive
profit (in addition to and on top of "child support" payments) they (the share of his
prosecutor's office is 34% of the profit, the share of the courts that decide custody and
support is 22.2% of the profit and the share of the share of the counties' general budget
is also 22.2% of the profit) and the state receive for which he and his office:

A) destroy families;

B) remove parents (mainly fathers) from their children's lives.

C) unlawfully and fraudulently criminalise fathers.

D) violate the laws and constitutions of Indiana and the US.

E) falsely and deliberately harass and imprison innocent parents (mainly fathers) in
order that each time his office's action is chalked off as an "enforcement" case for which
they receive federal profits.

F) conspire with judges, state officials and CPS (all of these PERPETRATORS
financially benefit from the profits) and entice and/or coerce mainly greedy mothers, to
create fatherless children and destroyed families.

G) their destruction, for greed, of families results in higher damage and crime rates in
and by children of such families and the additional tax and expense on the society (see
figures below.).

H) fraudulently utilise the federal incentive programme (originally meant for poor and
low income families and single-parent homes) to deprive middle class families of their
children and remove their fathers from the children's lives for profit.

I) ...

ii- Nor does he mention that on top of the incentive profit he and his office receive to
supposedly enforce "child support" payments, they even (fraudulently and criminally)
keep a lot of the "child support" money that "non-custodial" parents paid them for their
children. Only, that the "child support" money he and his office take from "non-custodial"
parents is never given to, nor reaches the intended children!

All these acts that he and his office of county prosecutor carry out are not only
unconstitutional, unlawful and fraudulent, but they are also amoral.

3- Pre-amble to the Links to Supporting Evidence, Statistics and

Reports

"Child Support" ("CS") Enforcement Kickbacks/incentive under Title IV-D, US

Code 42 USC 651 et seq. of Social Security Act ("SSA") that
unconstitutionally establishes legalised kidnapping of children, destruction
of families and incarceration of parents (almost exclusively, fathers)
fraudulently for the federal incentive (below) money handed by the US
federal government to its 50 states (state government, courts, county
prosecutors and counties) as part of a social engineering programme to
remove fathers from families in order for the state to exert control of
children.The third group of links below indicate the incentive kickback to
perpetrate such atrocities. The “incentive” payments are in addition to the
reimbursement of the cost of administering per case the collection
programme. No doubt to say in order to collect as much incentive money as
possibles (i.e. trap as many families in the web of this programme), the
states, their officials, counties, courts, judges (who issue the orders, at the
very least, in conflict of interest as they themselves benefit from the
incentive and orders they issue against families), county prosecutors, et al.,
violate the laws and constitutions and commit crimes and conspiracy to
perpetrate such entrapment. hence, many innocent children and families
destroyed and parents criminalised in violation of their human and
constitution rights. For a small sample of many cases of such criminal
atrocities by officials and judiciary see
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/#Announcements,%20News%20&
%20Information and http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/#Submit%20YOUR
%20Cases%20Of%20
Corruption%20&%20Misconduct%20By%20Judges . Since November
2007, the US has sought to stealthily expand this draconian and amoral
regime worldwide under the guise of “child welfare” and through the
November 2007 Amendment to the Hague International Convention
whereby citizens of other countries while in their own countries will be
subject to US laws and liable to be arrested, extradited and brought
before US courts (which are invariably corrupt and have conflict of
interest in such matters). [This, in addition to destroying families
everywhere, also implies the expansion of US jurisdiction into and
encroachment upon other nations' sovereignty.] To help oppose this
destructive move by the US, see the petition to prevent other countries
from signing and ratifying this destructive Amendment.

N.B. The file names are self-explanatory. However, the second group of two
files below ("overview" and annualreport2congress-glossary" may be
reviewed for description of terms and further information.

4- Links: to Official Supporting Evidence, Statistics and Reports

A History of Title IV-D

http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-overview.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-annualreport2congress-
glossary.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-incentivepayments2states-
figures-code.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-actualincentivepayments.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-
grossundistributedcollections.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-
totaladministrativeexpenditure.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-administrativeexpenditure-
federalshare.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-administrativeexpenditure-
stateshare.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-totalprogramcosts.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-
totalcaseswithordersestablished.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-
totalcollectionreceivedbymethodofcollection.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-currentsupportdue.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-
estimatedincentivepayments.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-netundistributedcollections-
byage.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-netundistributedcollections.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-noncooperativecases.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-totaldistributedcollections.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-payments2families.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-
percentageofnetundistributedcollections-byage.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-
percentageofundistributedcollections.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-programcosts-federalshare.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-programcosts-stateshare.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-
supportdistributedascurrentsupport.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-totalnumberofchildren.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-2005-undistributedcollections-
bycategory.html
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-fatherlesschildren-phyllis.pdf
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-ss-gift-exh10-excerpts.pdf
http://corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-kickback-ss-gift-exh10.pdf

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For evidence and proof of above assertions, you may refer to
http://www.corruptusjudicialsystem.org/ and
http://www.corruptusjudicialsystem.org/cs-ivd-linklist.pdf

5- Further Statistics: In Support of The Assertions Herein

Some More Statistics Corroborating The Destruction of the Family Through The
Perpetrators' Crimes Under The Color of Law and in Their Official capacities
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[Acknowledgment: This table was provided courtesy of Mr. Joe ].

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61% of all child abuse is committed by biological mothers

25% of all child abuse is committed by natural fathers
Statistical Source: Current DHHS report on nationwide Child Abuse

79.6% of custodial mothers receive a support award

29.9% of custodial fathers receive a support award

46.9% of non-custodial mothers totally default on support

26.9% of non-custodial fathers totally default on support

20.0% of non-custodial mothers pay support at some level

61.0% of non-custodial fathers pay support at some level

66.2% of single custodial mothers work less than full-time

10.2% of single custodial fathers work less than full-time

7.0% of single custodial mothers work more than 44 hours weekly

24.5% of single custodial fathers work more than 44 hours weekly

46.2% of single custodial mothers receive public assistance

20.8% of single custodial fathers receive public assistance
Statistical Source: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42 - U.S. Dept. of Health & Human
Services - Office of Income Security Policy

90.2% of fathers with joint custody pay all the support due
79.1% of fathers with visitation privileges pay all the support due
44.5% of fathers with no visitation pay all the support due
37.9% of fathers are denied any visitation
66.0% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to inability to pay
Statistical Source: 1988 Census "Child Support and Alimony: 1989 Series P-60, No. 173
p. 6-7. and U.S. General Accounting Office Report" GAO/HRD-92-39FS January, 1992

50% of mothers see no value in the father's continued contact with his children.
--See "Surviving the Breakup" by Joan Berlin Kelly

40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the father's visitation to punish
their ex-spouse.
--See "Frequency of Visitation.. .." by Stanford Braver, American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes

--U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes
--Center for Disease Control
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes
--Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26
71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes
--National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools
70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes
--U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report Sept., 1988
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home
--Fulton County Georgia jail populations & Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992

Translated, this means that children from a fatherless home are:

5 times more likely to commit suicide

32 times more likely to run away

20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders

14 times more likely to commit rape

9 times more likely to drop out of school

10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances

9 times more likely to end up in a state operated institution

20 times more likely to end up in prison

There are: 11,268,000 total U.S. custodial mothers and 2,907,000 total U.S. custodial
fathers
--Current Population Reports, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Series P-20, No. 458, 1991

In a study of 700 adolescents, researchers found that "compared to families with two
natural parents living in the home, adolescents from single-parent families have been
found to engage in greater and earlier sexual activity."
Source: Carol W. Metzler, et al. "The Social Context for Risky Sexual Behavior Among
Adolescents" , Journal of Behavioral Medicine 17 (1994).

"Fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental
illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy, and criminality. "
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health
Statistics, Survey on Child Health, Washington, DC, 1993.

"Teenagers living in single-parent households are more likely to abuse alcohol and at an
earlier age compared to children reared in two-parent households."
Source: Terry E. Duncan, Susan C. Duncan and Hyman Hops, "The Effects of Family
Cohesiveness and Peer Encouragement on the Development of Adolescent Alcohol
Use: A Cohort-Sequential Approach to the Analysis of Longitudinal Data", Journal of
Studies on Alcohol 55 (1994).

"...the absence of the father in the home affects significantly the behavior of adolescents
and results in the greater use of alcohol and marijuana."
Source: Deane Scott Berman "Risk Factors Leading to Adolescent Substance Abuse",
Adolescence 30 (1995)

A study of 156 victims of child sexual abuse found that the majority of the children came
from disrupted or single-parent homes; only 31 percent of the children lived with both
biological parents. Although stepfamilies make up only about 10 percent of all families,
27 percent of the abused children lived with either a stepfather or the mother's
boyfriend.
Source: Beverly Gomes-Schwartz, Jonathan Horowitz, and Albert P. Cardarelli, "Child
Sexual Abuse Victims and Their Treatment", U.S. Department of Justice, Office of
Juvenile Justce and Delinquency Prevention.

Researchers in Michigan determined that "49 percent of all child abuse cases are
committed by single mothers."
Source: Joan Ditson and Sharon Shay, "A Study of Child Abuse in Lansing, Michigan",
Child Abuse and Neglect, 8 (1984).

"A family structure index -- a composite index based on the annual rate of children
involved in divorce and the percentage of families with children present that are female-
headed -- is a strong predictor of suicide among young adult and adolescent white
males."
Source: Patricia L. McCall and Kenneth C. Land, "Trends in White Male Adolescent,
Young-Adult and Elderly Suicide: Are There Common Underlying Structural Factors?"
Social Science Research 23, 1994.

" Fatherless children are at dramatically greater risk of suicide."

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health
Statistics, Survey on Child Health, Washington, DC, 1993.

In a study of 146 adolescent friends of 26 adolescent suicide victims, teens living in

single-parent families are not only more likely to commit suicide but also more likely to
suffer from psychological disorders, when compared to teens living in intact families.
Source: David A. Brent, et al. "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Peers of Adolescent
Suicide Victims: Predisposing Factors and Phenomenology. ", Journal of the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 34, 1995.

"Boys who grow up in father-absent homes are more likely that those in father-present
homes to have trouble establishing appropriate sex roles and gender identity."
Source: P.L. Adams, J.R. Milner, and N.A. Schrepf, "Fatherless Children", New York,
Wiley Press, 1984.

"In 1988, a study of preschool children admitted to New Orleans hospitals as psychiatric
patients over a 34-month period found that nearly 80 percent came from fatherless
homes."
Source: Jack Block, et al. "Parental Functioning and the Home Environment in Families
of Divorce", Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 27
(1988)

"Children living with a never-married mother are more likely to have been treated for
emotional problems."
Source: L. Remez, "Children Who Don't Live with Both Parents Face Behavioral
Problems," Family Planning Perspectives (January/February 1992).

Children reared by a divorced or never-married mother are less cooperative and score
lower on tests of intelligence than children reared in intact families. Statistical analysis of
the behavior and intelligence of these children revealed "significant detrimental effects "
of living in a female-headed household. Growing up in a female-headed household
remained a statistical predictor of behavior problems even after adjusting for differences
in family income.
Source: Greg L. Duncan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Pamela Kato Klebanov, "Economic
Deprivation and Early Childhood Development" , Child Development 65 (1994).
"Compared to peers in two-parent homes, black children in single-parent households
are more likely to engage in troublesome behavior, and perform poorly in school."
Source: Tom Luster and Hariette Pipes McAdoo, "Factors Related to the Achievement
and Adjustment of Young African-American Children.", Child Development 65 (1994):
1080-1094

"Even controlling for variations across groups in parent education, race and other child
and family factors, 18- to 22-year-olds from disrupted families were twice as likely to
have poor relationships with their mothers and fathers, to show high levels of emotional
distress or problem behavior, [and] to have received psychological help."
Source: Nicholas Zill, Donna Morrison, and Mary Jo Coiro, "Long Term Effects of
Parental Divorce on Parent-Child Relationships, Adjustment and Achievement in Young
Adulthood", Journal of Family Psychology 7 (1993).

"Children with fathers at home tend to do better in school, are less prone to depression
and are more successful in relationships. Children from one-parent families achieve less
and get into trouble more than children from two parent families."
Source: One Parent Families and Their Children: The School's Most Significant
Minority, conducted by The Consortium for the Study of School Needs of Children from
One Parent Families, co sponsored by the National Association of Elementary School
Principals and the Institute for Development of Educational Activities, a division of the
Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Arlington, VA., 1980

"Children whose parents separate are significantly more likely to engage in early sexual
activity, abuse drugs, and experience conduct and mood disorders. This effect is
especially strong for children whose parents separated when they were five years old or
younger."
Source: David M. Fergusson, John Horwood and Michael T. Lynsky, "Parental
Separation, Adolescent Psychopathology, and Problem Behaviors", Journal of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 33 (1944)

"Compared to peers living with both biological parents, sons and daughters of divorced
or separated parents exhibited significantly more conduct problems. Daughters of
divorced or separated mothers evidenced significantly higher rates of internalizing
problems, such as anxiety or depression."
Source: Denise B. Kandel, Emily Rosenbaum and Kevin Chen, "Impact of Maternal
Drug Use and Life Experiences on Preadolescent Children Born to Teenage Mothers",
Journal of Marriage and the Family56 (1994).

"Father hunger " often afflicts boys age 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.
Source: Alfred A. Messer, "Boys Father Hunger: The Missing Father Syndrome",
Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, January 1989.

"Children of never-married mothers are more than twice as likely to have been treated
for an emotional or behavioral problem."
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health
Statistics, National Health Interiew Survey, Hyattsille, MD, 1988

A 1988 Department of Health and Human Services study found that at every income
level except the very highest (over $50,000 a year), children living with never-married
mothers were more likely than their counterparts in two-parent families to have been
expelled or suspended from school, to display emotional problems, and to engage in
antisocial behavior.
Source: James Q. Wilson, "In Loco Parentis: Helping Children When Families Fail
Them", The Brookings Review, Fall 1993.

In a longitudinal study of 1,197 fourth-grade students, researchers observed "greater

levels of aggression in boys from mother-only households than from boys in mother-
father households."
Source: N. Vaden-Kierman, N. Ialongo, J. Pearson, and S. Kellam, "Household Family
Structure and Children's Aggressive Behavior: A Longitudinal Study of Urban
Elementary School Children", Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 23, no. 5 (1995).

"Children from mother-only families have less of an ability to delay gratification and
poorer impulse control (that is, control over anger and sexual gratification. ) These
children also have a weaker sense of conscience or sense of right and wrong."
Source: E.M. Hetherington and B. Martin, "Family Interaction " in H.C. Quay and J.S.
Werry (eds.), Psychopathological Disorders of Childhood. (New York: John Wiley &
Sons, 1979)

"Eighty percent of adolescents in psychiatric hospitals come from broken homes."

Source: J.B. Elshtain, "Family Matters... ", Christian Century, Jully 1993.,61% of all child
abuse is committed by biological mothers
25% of all child abuse is committed by natural fathers
Statistical Source: Current DHHS report on nationwide Child Abuse

79.6% of custodial mothers receive a support award

29.9% of custodial fathers receive a support award

46.9% of non-custodial mothers totally default on support

26.9% of non-custodial fathers totally default on support
20.0% of non-custodial mothers pay support at some level
61.0% of non-custodial fathers pay support at some level

66.2% of single custodial mothers work less than full-time

10.2% of single custodial fathers work less than full-time

7.0% of single custodial mothers work more than 44 hours weekly

24.5% of single custodial fathers work more than 44 hours weekly

46.2% of single custodial mothers receive public assistance

20.8% of single custodial fathers receive public assistance
Statistical Source: Technical Analysis Paper No. 42 - U.S. Dept. of Health & Human
Services - Office of Income Security Policy

90.2% of fathers with joint custody pay all the support due
79.1% of fathers with visitation privileges pay all the support due
44.5% of fathers with no visitation pay all the support due
37.9% of fathers are denied any visitation
66.0% of all support not paid by non-custodial fathers is due to inability to pay
Statistical Source: 1988 Census "Child Support and Alimony: 1989 Series P-60, No. 173
p. 6-7. and U.S. General Accounting Office Report" GAO/HRD-92-39FS January, 1992

50% of mothers see no value in the father's continued contact with his children.
--See "Surviving the Breakup" by Joan Berlin Kelly

40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the father's visitation to punish
their ex-spouse.
--See "Frequency of Visitation.. .." by Stanford Braver, American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry

63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes

--U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census
85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes
--Center for Disease Control
80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes
--Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26
71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes
--National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools
70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from fatherless homes
--U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report Sept., 1988
85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home
--Fulton County Georgia jail populations & Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992
Translated, this means that children from a fatherless home are:

5 times more likely to commit suicide

32 times more likely to run away

20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders

14 times more likely to commit rape

9 times more likely to drop out of school

10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances

9 times more likely to end up in a state operated institution

20 times more likely to end up in prison

There are: 11,268,000 total U.S. custodial mothers and 2,907,000 total U.S. custodial
fathers
--Current Population Reports, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Series P-20, No. 458, 1991

In a study of 700 adolescents, researchers found that "compared to families with two
natural parents living in the home, adolescents from single-parent families have been
found to engage in greater and earlier sexual activity."
Source: Carol W. Metzler, et al. "The Social Context for Risky Sexual Behavior Among
Adolescents" , Journal of Behavioral Medicine 17 (1994).

"Fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental
illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy, and criminality. "
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health
Statistics, Survey on Child Health, Washington, DC, 1993.

"Teenagers living in single-parent households are more likely to abuse alcohol and at an
earlier age compared to children reared in two-parent households."
Source: Terry E. Duncan, Susan C. Duncan and Hyman Hops, "The Effects of Family
Cohesiveness and Peer Encouragement on the Development of Adolescent Alcohol
Use: A Cohort-Sequential Approach to the Analysis of Longitudinal Data", Journal of
Studies on Alcohol 55 (1994).

"...the absence of the father in the home affects significantly the behavior of adolescents
and results in the greater use of alcohol and marijuana."
Source: Deane Scott Berman "Risk Factors Leading to Adolescent Substance Abuse",
Adolescence 30 (1995)

A study of 156 victims of child sexual abuse found that the majority of the children came
from disrupted or single-parent homes; only 31 percent of the children lived with both
biological parents. Although stepfamilies make up only about 10 percent of all families,
27 percent of the abused children lived with either a stepfather or the mother's
boyfriend.
Source: Beverly Gomes-Schwartz, Jonathan Horowitz, and Albert P. Cardarelli, "Child
Sexual Abuse Victims and Their Treatment", U.S. Department of Justice, Office of
Juvenile Justce and Delinquency Prevention.

Researchers in Michigan determined that "49 percent of all child abuse cases are
committed by single mothers."
Source: Joan Ditson and Sharon Shay, "A Study of Child Abuse in Lansing, Michigan",
Child Abuse and Neglect, 8 (1984).

"A family structure index -- a composite index based on the annual rate of children
involved in divorce and the percentage of families with children present that are female-
headed -- is a strong predictor of suicide among young adult and adolescent white
males."
Source: Patricia L. McCall and Kenneth C. Land, "Trends in White Male Adolescent,
Young-Adult and Elderly Suicide: Are There Common Underlying Structural Factors?"
Social Science Research 23, 1994.

" Fatherless children are at dramatically greater risk of suicide."

Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health
Statistics, Survey on Child Health, Washington, DC, 1993.

In a study of 146 adolescent friends of 26 adolescent suicide victims, teens living in

single-parent families are not only more likely to commit suicide but also more likely to
suffer from psychological disorders, when compared to teens living in intact families.
Source: David A. Brent, et al. "Post-traumatic Stress Disorder in Peers of Adolescent
Suicide Victims: Predisposing Factors and Phenomenology. ", Journal of the American
Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 34, 1995.

"Boys who grow up in father-absent homes are more likely that those in father-present
homes to have trouble establishing appropriate sex roles and gender identity."
Source: P.L. Adams, J.R. Milner, and N.A. Schrepf, "Fatherless Children", New York,
Wiley Press, 1984.

"In 1988, a study of preschool children admitted to New Orleans hospitals as psychiatric
patients over a 34-month period found that nearly 80 percent came from fatherless
homes."
Source: Jack Block, et al. "Parental Functioning and the Home Environment in Families
of Divorce", Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 27
(1988)

"Children living with a never-married mother are more likely to have been treated for
emotional problems."
Source: L. Remez, "Children Who Don't Live with Both Parents Face Behavioral
Problems," Family Planning Perspectives (January/February 1992).

Children reared by a divorced or never-married mother are less cooperative and score
lower on tests of intelligence than children reared in intact families. Statistical analysis of
the behavior and intelligence of these children revealed "significant detrimental effects "
of living in a female-headed household. Growing up in a female-headed household
remained a statistical predictor of behavior problems even after adjusting for differences
in family income.
Source: Greg L. Duncan, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Pamela Kato Klebanov, "Economic
Deprivation and Early Childhood Development" , Child Development 65 (1994).

"Compared to peers in two-parent homes, black children in single-parent households

are more likely to engage in troublesome behavior, and perform poorly in school."
Source: Tom Luster and Hariette Pipes McAdoo, "Factors Related to the Achievement
and Adjustment of Young African-American Children.", Child Development 65 (1994):
1080-1094

"Even controlling for variations across groups in parent education, race and other child
and family factors, 18- to 22-year-olds from disrupted families were twice as likely to
have poor relationships with their mothers and fathers, to show high levels of emotional
distress or problem behavior, [and] to have received psychological help."
Source: Nicholas Zill, Donna Morrison, and Mary Jo Coiro, "Long Term Effects of
Parental Divorce on Parent-Child Relationships, Adjustment and Achievement in Young
Adulthood", Journal of Family Psychology 7 (1993).

"Children with fathers at home tend to do better in school, are less prone to depression
and are more successful in relationships. Children from one-parent families achieve less
and get into trouble more than children from two parent families."
Source: One Parent Families and Their Children: The School's Most Significant
Minority, conducted by The Consortium for the Study of School Needs of Children from
One Parent Families, co sponsored by the National Association of Elementary School
Principals and the Institute for Development of Educational Activities, a division of the
Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Arlington, VA., 1980

"Children whose parents separate are significantly more likely to engage in early sexual
activity, abuse drugs, and experience conduct and mood disorders. This effect is
especially strong for children whose parents separated when they were five years old or
younger."
Source: David M. Fergusson, John Horwood and Michael T. Lynsky, "Parental
Separation, Adolescent Psychopathology, and Problem Behaviors", Journal of the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry 33 (1944)

"Compared to peers living with both biological parents, sons and daughters of divorced
or separated parents exhibited significantly more conduct problems. Daughters of
divorced or separated mothers evidenced significantly higher rates of internalizing
problems, such as anxiety or depression."
Source: Denise B. Kandel, Emily Rosenbaum and Kevin Chen, "Impact of Maternal
Drug Use and Life Experiences on Preadolescent Children Born to Teenage Mothers",
Journal of Marriage and the Family56 (1994).

"Father hunger " often afflicts boys age 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.
Source: Alfred A. Messer, "Boys Father Hunger: The Missing Father Syndrome",
Medical Aspects of Human Sexuality, January 1989.

"Children of never-married mothers are more than twice as likely to have been treated
for an emotional or behavioral problem."
Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Center for Health
Statistics, National Health Interiew Survey, Hyattsille, MD, 1988

A 1988 Department of Health and Human Services study found that at every income
level except the very highest (over $50,000 a year), children living with never-married
mothers were more likely than their counterparts in two-parent families to have been
expelled or suspended from school, to display emotional problems, and to engage in
antisocial behavior.
Source: James Q. Wilson, "In Loco Parentis: Helping Children When Families Fail
Them", The Brookings Review, Fall 1993.

In a longitudinal study of 1,197 fourth-grade students, researchers observed "greater

levels of aggression in boys from mother-only households than from boys in mother-
father households."
Source: N. Vaden-Kierman, N. Ialongo, J. Pearson, and S. Kellam, "Household Family
Structure and Children's Aggressive Behavior: A Longitudinal Study of Urban
Elementary School Children", Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology 23, no. 5 (1995).

"Children from mother-only families have less of an ability to delay gratification and
poorer impulse control (that is, control over anger and sexual gratification. ) These
children also have a weaker sense of conscience or sense of right and wrong."
Source: E.M. Hetherington and B. Martin, "Family Interaction " in H.C. Quay and J.S.
Werry (eds.), Psychopathological Disorders of Childhood. (New York: John Wiley &
Sons, 1979)

"Eighty percent of adolescents in psychiatric hospitals come from broken homes."

Source: J.B. Elshtain, "Family Matters... ", Christian Century, Jully 1993.

6- Contact Information

Please feel free to contact ( ahs@swissmail.org ) Dr. Amir Sanjari for further
information regarding this scourge and crime perpetrated upon families.

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