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A series by Bad Billy Laveau homes are led by women. But let’s not focus on that area alone. Nationwide, 25% of children live in single-parent homes, whereas worldwide, only 7% of kids live in single parent homes. And we are supposed to be the most affluent nation on earth. By what measure?

In the US, 70% of teenage pregnancies occur in girls living in fatherless homes. And they have higher abortion rates than girls from two-parent homes.

Children reared in two-parent homes are less likely to go to jail. They are less likely to enter the drug scene. Kids reared by fathers alone have the same incarceration rate as two-parent kids.

90% of homeless and runaway kids are from single parent homes.

63% of child suicides are from single parent homes.

85% of behavioral disorder diagnosed kids are from single parent homes.

Do these statistics tell us something? Do children from two-parent homes fare better in our world? Most likely. For thousands of years, two-parent homes were the norm. The world progressed. Societies grew. Countries gradually developed, but not without turbulent bumps along the way. We had wars. Famines. Genocides.

Then, during President Johnson’s War on Poverty, government workers went door-to-door asking if there was a father figure or man living in the home. If not, the household got food stamps, rents paid, electricity and water paid as well Medicaid medical care. If a man or father figure was there, no help.

In short, the government paid if the men were absent from the household. Is it any wonder why we became a nation of fatherless homes? One doesn’t have to be a mathematician or an Einstein to see the connection. Just as clearly, the falling number of husbands or father figures is directly related to the downfall of our society.

There is an answer in numbers. Put one father and one mother in each home — before children arrive. Limit the number of children to whatever the family can financially and socially care for. Two children is usually a good number. Kids stay in school for 12 years. Public schools are paid for by the taxpayers. Become trained in one profession. (College or trade school or apprenticeship or

On Job Training.)

Children should not have children. Birth control is free at the Public Health Department. One visit to PHD every six months solves the unsupported pregnancy problem. Those are easy numbers to engage.

The bottom line is that if child bearing is postponed until a long-lasting, financially stable relationship is establish and fully committed, many of the perils of life are avoided. Personal income increases. Mental illness decreases. Incarcerations decrease. Drug addiction decreases. Poverty decreases.

At about the same time our numbers got out of whack, along came new terms: Baby-mama. Baby-daddy. The alphabet soup of new sexual identities. Recreational drug use. Drug addiction. Increasing school dropouts. High unemployment. Spiraling public debt. Falling individual net worth.

We must get our numbers right … while there is still time.