The research on fatherless homes is voluminous, according to Fathers.com:

• A majority of prisoners, juvenile detention inmates, high school dropouts, pregnant teenagers, adolescent murderers and rapists all come from fatherless homes.
• “The likelihood that a young male will engage in criminal activity doubles if he is raised without a father and triples if he lives in a neighborhood with a high concentration of single-parent families”
• An estimated 70 percent of the juveniles in state reform institutions, 72 percent of adolescent murderers and 60 percent of America’s rapists grew up without fathers

The data for black males is even more outrageous. According to the New York Times new studies found:

• More than half of all black men in the nation’s inner cities drop out of high school
• By their mid-30’s, 60 percent of high school dropouts have served time in jail

Dr. Ronald B. Mincy, professor of social work at Centre for African American Policy at The University of Denver believes, “the legacy of racism and poverty for the crisis along with the low expectations many people have for young black men, failures of the education system, a lack of male role models and the anti-intellectualism fostered by black street culture.”

Our approach is to put viable men in the lives of these young men.