The Difference Married Fathers Make For Young Men
June 14, 2024(Charlottesville, VA.)—For Immediate Release
Contact: Chris Bullivant
New research out this week from the Institute for Family Studies compares life outcomes for young men from different family structures.
The findings:
- Young men are more likely to end up in prison or jail than graduate college if they are from a non intact family.
- Young men from intact families are twice as likely to graduate from college than those who are from non intact families.
- Family structure is more predictive than race when considering these life outcomes.
We see for young men today a family-to-prison-or-college pipeline that sees greater likelihood of young men from intact families headed towards college graduation, and young men from non-intact families headed towards prison or jail.
READ:
Brad Wilcox, Sam Herrin, Jessie Smith, Wendy Wang, "The Family-to-Prison-or-College Pipeline: Married Fathers and Young Men's Transition to Adulthood," The Institute for Family Studies, June 13, 2024
https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-family-to-prison-or-college-pipeline-married-fathers-and-young-mens-transition-to-adulthood
ENDS.
Notes.
- The Institute for Family Studies (IFS) is a think tank researching marriage, family life, and the well-being of children, based in Charlottesville, VA.: https://ifstudies.org/
