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• Top Ten Fatherhood Facts
Top 10 Fatherhood Facts
from The National Fatherhood initiative
24 million children (34 percent) live absent their biological father.
Nearly 20 million children (27 percent) live in single-parent homes.
1.35 million births (33 percent of all births) in 2000 occurred out of wedlock.
43 percent of first marriages dissolve within fifteen years; about 60 percent of divorcing couples have children; [...]
• Evaluating Play Equipment
We are working on building a playground for some children in India. So we are partnering with Kids Around the World, who have successfully installed over 100 playgrounds worldwide now. In doing my homework about playgrounds, I ran across this excellent article by Anne-Marie Spencer, who has offered this helpful article on [...]
• U.S. Church Demographics
I ran across this interesting demographic research of the distribution of denominations. This research was produced by the Glenmary Research Center (a Catholic group). The fine print indicates that the County designations are based on the total number of adherents reported by each church body divided by the county population in 2000. Majority [...]
