[Lorianne]

Eighty-five percent of prisoners, 78% of high school dropouts, 82% of teenage girls who become pregnant, the majority of drug and alcohol abusers—all come from single-mother-headed households. Less than 1% of any of these categories come from single-father-headed households.

Fraudulent use of statistics. What percent of these kids come from single father households? If the author starts out with a fraud, how does he expect to be taken seriously, even by those who believe in his premis (like me). Right off the bat I don't trust an author who has to resort to fruad to make his case.

Also, teenage girls do not "become pregnant". Right off the bat the author portrays reproduction in a way that contributes to the popular mindset that fathers are optional. Apparently they don't have anything even biologically to do with conception! He incorrectly (and I believe intentionally ) misrepresents the facts of reproduction by ommission .... by choosing wording that leaves out how pregnancy occurs. This is a big part of the problem he is ostensibly fighting!

[Harrison Bergeron]

"What percent of these kids come from single father households?"

Your use of the words "fraudulent" and "fraud" with regard to the author of the study are off base. The so-called "journalist" who reports on the study ignored the percentage of single-parent mothers and hid the single-parent father figure in the middle of the article among some other statistics discussing mental health. It was probably an oversight that the editor left it in, but it's there. See my prior post.