Benefits to Kids with Involved Fathers

Drug Abuse: Teens with positive relationships with their fathers are ten times less likely to abuse chemical substances.

Education: When fathers are involved in their children's education, children are more likely to get A's, enjoy school, participate in extracurricular activities and less likely to have repeated a grade.

Empathy: Fathers who spend time alone with their children performing routine childcare two or more times a week, consistently raise children who are the most compassionate adults.

Juvenile Delinquency: In high-crime, inner-city neighborhoods, well over 90% of children from safe, stable, two-parent homes do not become juvenile delinquents.

Relationships: Girls who live with their fathers, are more likely to abstain from sex until marriage and form longer and more fulfilling romantic relations later in their lives.

Social and Cognitive Skills: Father-child interaction has been shown to promote a child's physical well-being, perceptual abilities and competency for relatedness with others, even at a very young age.

-Source: Rainbows for All God’s Children.
-Source: Father’s Involvement in Their Children’s Schools. National Center for Education Statistics. Washington DC: GPO, 1997.
-Source: Koestner, Richard, Carol Franz, and Joel Weinberger. “The Family Origins of Empathic Concern: A Twenty-Six Year Longitudinal Study.” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 58 (1990): 709-717.
-Source: Richters, John, “Violent Communities, Family Choices, and Children’s Chances” Development and Psychopathology 1993.