Fatherless children have
rates of incarceration, criminal activity, possession of firearms, poverty, drug and alcohol abuse,
teen pregnancy, incompletion of school, and
overall parental neglect and maltreatment alarmingly higher than their two - parent counterparts.
Further, on average and generally speaking, atheists have fewer divorces, abortions, and STDs, and lower poverty
rates, homicide
rates,
overall crime
rates, and
teen pregnancy
rates.