Projects: Shared Parenting Statistics

Sponsor studies on the effects of shared parenting that are specific to Japan similar to the many many studies out there done in other countries.  There might be some universities or organizations willing to do this for free, or we might have to pay to sponsor them.  Some similar studies that outline the type of statistics that would be helpful are:

• http://www.fathermag.com/news/2778-stats.shtml  (85% of Youths in Prison Grew Up in Fatherless Home)
• http://www.fathermag.com/news/2776-UCSB.shtml  (Study Finds Teen Pregnancy and Crime Levels are Higher Among Kids from Fatherless Homes)
• Check on these suicide reports in Japan and see if any have a connection with not being able to see their children.  Suicides in Japan Tops 30,000 in 2002.  Japan Today; July 26; 2003. (cached copy)  Of course post info on site if it does.
• Check our page on visitation, which includes statistics in many of the articles, for more possible studies.

Try to gather statistics about Japan similar to these (from the 85% of Youths... article above)

• 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census”
• 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes
• 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from fatherless homes (Source: Center for Disease Control)
• 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from fatherless homes (Source: Criminal Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26, 1978.)
• 71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes (Source: National Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.)
• 75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes (Source: Rainbows for all God’s Children.)
• 70% of juveniles in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes (Source: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept 1988)
• 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a fatherless home (Source: Fulton Co. Georgia jail populations, Texas Dept. of Corrections 1992)

  (Because only a portion of each age group grew up in a fatherless home,) these statistics translate to mean that children from fatherless homes 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 high 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.

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Courtesy Mark Hall, Fathers Manifesto

And also at the Fathers Manifesto site: More than half of the juveniles executed around the world were executed in the US, which has less than 5% of the world's population. http://fathers.ourfamily.com/damages.htm