Connor BeatonFound of ManTalks | Empowering Men to Build Better Lives, Relationships, and Minds

Is society failing men? #podcast #mantalks

18 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Transcript excerpt of a podcast by Connor Beaton discussing statistical data linking father absence in single-parent (predominantly mother-led) households to worse outcomes for children—especially males—including much higher rates of suicide, high-school dropout, substance abuse, violent crime, and incarceration.

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Five times more likely.

Nine times more likely.

Ten times more likely.

Fourteen times more likely.

Twenty times more likely.

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When you look at data around children who are brought up in a single parent household, and that's predominantly a single mother household, where the father is absent, children are five times more likely to commit suicide. And when you drill down into that data, it is predominantly men, it is way more men than women. Children that grow up without a father in the household are nine times more likely to drop out of high school, they are 10 times more likely to, to abuse a chemical substance, they are 14 times more likely to commit the, to commit grape, and they are 20 times more likely to end up in prison. And again, when you go into all this data, what you really clearly see is that it is disproportionately affecting men.