.Why do think 90% of deadbeat parents are dads.?
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Because it is easier for them to leave. I think if men were able to get pregnant, it would be the other way around. Maybe 90% of deadbeat parents would be mothers who left. It's just easier for men to avoid the responsibility because they don't carry the child while the mother is stuck carrying it, and then giving birth to it, etc.
636926
Yes , they do. They dont know or dont understand that it takes two to make a child and also two to bring him/her up. Single parents are not  role models for their children. Children need to see a mother and a father in their house.Otherwise, they will grow being very unhappy children.
902297
Maybe the money? But I think its mostly because they think of themselves as victims. Maybe daddy was a drunk, and so they get stuck in a rut which will lead nowhere. Women who hang with drunks are dating losers. Doing so makes them losers as well. Sad.
213704
Because their father's were like that towards their mothers, it's all they know. It's a never ending cycle. If they do find a decent guy, or if the abusive guy changes for the better, the girl will get uncomfortable w/the relationship and just leave.
1156285
The most fathererd would have to be the story not long ago about the guy who worked at the sperm bank and was making regular deposits and trading out other peoples stuff for his. Not sure on the total number's but I think it happened in the north east part of the country. I know he had so many and was found out when 2 of his kids almost got married to each other, thank god for the blood test I guess.
666107
Yes! My ex-husband who feels like he wants to play a role of an uncle instead of a part-time dad so as to not take any responsibility for being a deadbeat dad. He has never had any contact since my son was 6 months old and my son nearly 8years old.  I have provided my son with a real dad, my current husband who has always loved him as his own, and a stable family.  After all these years he wants unsupervised visitation! With his girlfriend present, eventually, he says! No contact what-so-ever with his biological son until just now when I had to tell my kid about his other dad. Even then they spoke only 3 times and my son does not want to speak to him anymore.  He is a stranger to my son they have never even met.  This just angers me to no end;(!!!  Not to mention that he cheated on me and broke my soul. The only thing that kept me going was the love I had for my son. The son that he wanted me to abort even though I had always been faithful.  When I was later on in the pregnancy the wanted me to adopt out our child to his parents, what a jerk.  He is such an immature, selfish jerk. I hide it from everyone how much it disturbs me. My current husband has no understanding, he has never had his heat broken or been cheated on. He can not relate and gets angry at me. He thinks that I think that I have it so bad now that I want to be back with my ex.(not the case at all) I just want to scream:O!!!!
756055
Absent fathers cause daughters to have more emotional problems than girls whose fathers are actively involved in their lives? I heard that girls whose Dads split are more likely to have eating disorders, to use alcohol and drugs, to get pregnant young and/or out-of-wedlock. I think it's an interesting topic.
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I suspect it would be a woman.  Women, not men, physically give birth to the children so there is that factor.   Many women are raising children on their own, some because they choose to, some because it is so easy for the fatehrs to get away with being deadbeat dads, and some because until very recent years the courts very much favored the mom in terms of awarding custody.   Some people believe tht women have more of the "caregiver" characteristic and so are more likely to head single parent households.
204064
well to correctly answer that .. i would be curious to kno the  breakdown of the 12.5 million single moms who became single moms ... due to the fact that as our generations proceed .. somehow the family structure and its value to want or maintain a unified foundation to build and nurture kids, has become unimportant or desensitized. Casting blame on a person or gender doesnt help understand the source of reason why its a epidemic because we need to value ourselves, both men and women & value the family unit as it is  meant to be. So unless u are one who is a single mom due to death of ur spouse or kids father, we need to then be discerning and make sure our choices are not selfish but selfbuilding....
142736
yes they are most likely to divorce or have children out of wedlock . . . because that is what they learned from their parents.\n\nthey are also more likely to lie and be dishonest and go to prision too . . .
612284
basically, following that premise, if virtually all gentleman are highly intelligent for dads rights, then either 1. you dont have enough data\n       2. most likely they have the money to proceed and  \n          get results\n       if your premise true, i think money is defining difference. Most of us ordinary joes dont have the cash to pursue any cause no less this one.
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My friend called his biological mother mum (australian spelling) and his other mother by her name. My other friend raised by two dads did the same.\nAs for the father figure... how many families are there that are single parent families? Millions...its kind of abnormal to have a father figure these days.
1110948
I would like to say that it is very hard for a father to get custody of his kids. A lot of it depends on the state you are in.  The human race feels there is not a stronger bond than that of a mother and her sibblings. The father will have to prove that the mother is unfit for some reason or other. Could be the enviroment the kids are in. What the mother is doing around the kids or what she is doing with the kids. A lot of people think that when a man and woman split up, just because the father is ordered to pay child support,they are entitled to visitation and this is not true.  There are times when visitation is allowed and the mother will not honor it,she will say take me back to court.  Then one has to stop and think what is best for the kids.  Even if the father was to get custody of sibblings and they didn't want to be with him,there again you have problems with the kids because they don't want to be there and as long as he has them in his custody,things will never be right. What a lot of people don't realize is that kids are not suppose to be used as"pawn pieces". They are human beings and they have feelings along with needs. Kids are very tender and need the help of all those who can provide it because if they don't have the proper foundation when they are young,they will not have the proper tools that will help them face the world that lies ahead. Kids are very precious and they should be treated as the jewel that they are.  When they get older,it is too late to turn back the hands of time even though hind sight is "20/20".  There are all kinds of things to consider when dealing with and no one thing is right for all.
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Indeed. But then again, it depends on if his children are already having a lot of terrible behavioral issues and if their mother is woman enough to try and be civil with the new woman in Dad's life.\n\nI don't instantly disqualify men for having kids, but I do dig a little deeper to find out if there are any red flags. There's no sense in getting invovled with a man with children if you're not going to be in it for the long haul.\n\nI believe that like women who are single moms, single Father's are a sacred thing. Don't start trampling on the hearts of our youth...that's a whole different kind of bad karma.\n\nbest of luck!
870265
One parent, my mom and she did an awesome job.  My mom and dad divorced, he was a dead beat after they separated and I have refused till this day to have nothing to do with him.
15879
Because regardless of whether the man pays his child support on time or not, all divorced fathers are perceived as dead beat dads...as with all things that need to be fixed in this country we put the most emphasis on the obvious misdeed that the monority does, and not the majority.  Since the mother, or father in some cases, (very few), doesn't have to report the support as income, the father, (or here again mother in a few cases), should be able to deduct the amount paid....for those of you naysayers, it might just make the ones who don't pay, start paying.....
110284
Its an epidemic,and I think its directly related to the lack of moral guidance in the homes.In most homes both parents are working so kids come home to an empty house,many teens come from broken homes where either or both parents are non-existent.There needs to be an emphasis on raising teens with self-esteem and training in morality,if Kids new they were loved and got enough of it in the home in the first place,they wouldnt feel this much need to find it elsewhere.You can see this desperation evident in cases where young boys go after older women seeking to fulfill the emptiness for a mothers love,and vice versa for young girls,looking for Daddy in an older man.Its seriously sad,and something needs to be done about it.