That is bad enough by itself, but where are these 22 million children if they aren't with either parent? It's trulyhard to imagine that they could all be with other remote relatives, in foster homes, or in the care of ChildProtective Services.How did we get to this state? How could and why did the country which was once the paragon of socialstability suddenly subject 22 million children to a parentless upbringing, and another 11.6 million to the physical, emotional, financial, educational, and psychological abuse of single-mother households, and another 13 million to step-parents, without our knowing about it? 78% of the nation's jail and prison inmates grew upin a fatherless household, even though only 15% of today's adult population grew up fatherless. This makesadults who grew up fatherless 20 times more likely to be imprisoned than adults who grew up with a father present. At any one time, more than 5% of those who grew up fatherless in this country are in prison, and nowalmost half of the nation's children are growing up without a father who, when they become adults, will be 20times as likely to be imprisoned and 8 times as likely to commit murder.Do they commit more crimes? Of the 24,926 murders in 1994, 14,660 were committed by the 30 millionAmericans who grew up fatherless, and only 10,304 were committed by the 170 million who grew up in father headed families.Why are they so much more likely to go to prison when the rate at which they commit crimes is only 6-8 timesgreater than the rate at which children of non-SMHs commit crimes? If they were only 8 times more likely togo to prison rather than 20 times, 936,000 of the 1,560,000 inmates in prison right now who grew up fatherlesswouldn't be there. This would be only 624,000 in prison, still a huge number, but only 40% of the currentfigure.The recent decrease in the murder rate was due solely to a temporary decrease in the age group between 15-24which commits the most crimes. When that age group increases to its regular level, coupled with the increase inthe percent of fatherless children becoming adults, the murder rate will begin its long term, rapid acceleration to12 murders per 100,000 population within the next 20 years. The additional 33.6 million fatherless childrenadded to the already 30 million adults who grew up fatherless, will cause the murder and incarceration rates toreach unprecedented levels. A linear projection of the known data shows that we can expect fatherlessness tocause an extra 2.8 million American citizens to be in prison and an extra 25,000 American citizens to bemurdered annually. Instead of our already record high incarceration rate of 730 per 100,000 population, it will be 1,100, and instead of the already record high murder rate of 10.5 murders per 100,000 population in 1991, itwill be 12.Page 2 of 7 Number of Single Mother Households1/10/2009http://www.christianparty.net/children.htm