"Over 24 million children in the United States today live apart from their fathers. That’s one out of every three. It’s even worse for African-American children. Nearly 64% of African-American boys and girls don’t have a dad in the home. The problem has been getting incrementally worse over the years. In 1960, 11% of children lived in father-absent homes, which is still a terribly high figure, especially when you begin to envision the faces of even just a few of those kids with nobody to call daddy. "And how many more kids would be added to that number if the children of our deployed military were added?
http://www.focusonlinecommunities.com/blogs/Finding_Home/2011/06/16/should-fathers-day-be-outlawed#cfStatistics excerpted from a blog post called "Should Father's Day Be Outlawed?" by Jim Daly.
