Kids need their moms and their dads. But right now, our nation is experiencing a crisis. A crisis of fatherlessness. The result? Less resilient families and less resilient children. At the end of 2022, nearly 250,000 Oklahoma children were living without a father in the home. Nationally, 71% of those who grew up, who dropped out of school, out of high school, they grew up without a present father in the home. (28:31–28:40)
CLAIM
Asserts that nearly 250,000 children in Oklahoma were living without a father at the end of 2022.
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