• Only half of divorced mothers value the absent father's continued contact with his children.
• Twenty percent of divorced mothers saw no value in the continued contact between a father and his children whatsoever, and tried to sabotage visits and meetings by sending the children away unexpectedly just before the visit, by insisting the children are ill or had pressing homework to do, by making an emotional or angry scene, or by simply disappearing.

  J. Wallerstein and Joan Kelly, "Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce," 1990.

• 40% of mothers reported that they had interfered with the father's visitation to punish their ex-husband.

  "Frequency of Visitation...." by Stanford Braver, American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

  Consequences of Destruction of Fathers' Bonding to Family
• 68% of youth suicides are from homes where the biological father is denied visitation and access

  U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census.

• 90% of all homeless and runaway children are from homes where the biological father is denied visitation and access.
• 85% of all children that exhibit behavioral disorders come from homes where the biological father is denied visitation and access.

  Center for Disease Control.

• 80% of rapists motivated with displaced anger come from homes where the biological father is denied visitation and access.

  Criminal Justice and Behavior, Vol. 14, p. 403-26.

• 71% of all high school dropouts come from homes where the biological father is denied visitation and access

  Natonal Principals Association Report on the State of High Schools.

• 70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from homes where the biological father is denied visitation and access

  U.S. Dept. of Justice, Special Report, Sept.,1988.

• 85% of all youths sitting in prisons grew up in a homes where the biological father is denied visitation and access.

  Fulton County Georgia jail populations & Texas Dept. of Corrections, 1992.

  In summary, children from homes where the biological father is denied visitation and access are:

  5 times more likely to commit suicide
  32 times more likely to run away
  20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
  14 times more likely to commit rape
  9 times more likely to drop out of school
  10 times more likely to abuse chemical substances
  9 times more likely to end up in a state operated institution
  20 times more likely to end up in prison.

  Fathers' Bonding with Family and Child Support Default Rate
• 90% of fathers with joint custody pay the support due.
• 79% of fathers with visitation privileges pay the support due.
• 45% of fathers with no visitation pay the support due.

1988 Census "Child Support and Alimony: 1989 Series P-60, No. 173 p.6-7. and U.S. General Accounting Office Report" GAO/HRD-92-39FS January,1992.