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Manuel Pereira
Kansas City, MO
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The U.S. Census reports that there are 10 million single mothers living with children under 18 years old, up from 3 million in 1970. In comparison, there are about 2.5 million single fathers. These statistics really make me think deeply about the message from President Obama today, who published this piece in Parade Magazine titled 'We Need Fathers To Step Up':
According to Fathers.com, we know that children in father-absent homes are five times more likely to be poor. In 2002, 7.8 percent of children in married-couple families were living in poverty, compared to 38.4 percent of children in female-householder families.
And even after controlling for income, youths in father-absent households still had significantly higher odds of incarceration than those in mother-father families. Youths who never had a father in the household experienced the highest odds.
This is a great article on fathers day, lets look at draconian laws like the legislation enacted by the Republican Congress in 1997. The IIRA deports and tears apart families at an average rate of 100,000 per year and we are not talking about illegals, we are talking about legal residents, veterans of the armed forces and anyone whom has an encounter with the law no matter how small. We can change this trend in families without fathers by demanding that this sensless legislation be rewritten to reflect justice, common sense and balance. Please write your legislator and demand that IIRA be repealed due to its draconian content.
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