Black Swann Fatherhood Initiative
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"You save a boy, you save a man; you save a girl, you save a woman."
Do you believe in our boys? Are you reaching out to help them discover their true identity in God? Only a man can teach a boy to be a man. Who will our boys be without you?
The State of Our Children
Troubling Facts About Boys
- The United States today has more boys and young men locked up in juvenile institutions, jails, prisons, and mental hospitals than any other nation on earth.
- Annually about three million boys are put on drugs like Ritalin and Prozac to control their school behavior.
- Boys compromise 71% of all school suspensions and are expelled at even higher rates.
- Boys dropped out of school 4 to 1 over girls.
- The majority of school violence victims are Males who represent about three-fourths all assaults homicides and suicides.
- Males are the majority of the homeless; HIV positives; physically abused, neglected, and murdered children; foster kids awaiting adoption; alcoholics and drug addicts in need of treatment.
Fatherless Children
- 63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes. (U.S. D.H.H.S., Bureau of the Census)
- 75% of adolescent patient’s in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes. (Rainbows for all God’s Children)
- 70% of juveniles in state operated institutions have no father.
(U.S. Dept. of Justice Special Report)
- 85% of youths in prisons grew up in a fatherless home.
(Fulton Co. Georgia jail population, Texas Dept. of Corrections)
- 90% of homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes.
(U.S. D.H.H.S. Bureau of the Census)
- 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes.
(National Principals Association Report to the State High Schools)
Children from a fatherless home are:
- 5 times more likely to commit suicide
- 32 times more likely to run away
- 20 times more likely to have behavioral disorders
- 9 times more likely to drop out of school
- 10 times more likely for substance abuse
- 9 times more likely to end up in a state operated institution
- 20 times more likely to end up in prison
How You Can Help?
Together we can make a difference! Our goal is to reach every community but we need your support. With a commitment from you, we can reach our goal be an organization that reaches out with no restrictions of the message we bring about the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Make a pledge today of $30 a month, $360 a year, or $1,080 over a three year time period or give what you would like.
Your donations will go toward the support of the Black Swann Fatherhood Initiative Summer Reading Program and the Black Swann Fatherhood Initiative 5-year plan to "Connect Education Back to the Community and the Church." To give to a specific program, simply note it on the donation and pledge form.
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