2020 County Commissioner- BLM Topic Data

Fatherless homes result in:

• 70% of black babies are brought into the world without a father.
• 71% of high school dropouts
• 63% of youth suicides
• 71% of teen pregnancies
• 90% of homeless and runaway youths
• Fatherless children are twice as likely to: go to jail, abuse alcohol & have mental health issues and FOUR TIMES as likely to abuse drugs.

Black families:

• 1950 (29.6% unmarried black males: 24.4% unmarried white males)
• 2017 (51.9% unmarried black males: 33.1% unmarried white males) 362% increase black males
• Illegal immigration disproportionately impacts unskilled black labors
• #1 Preventable and unpreventable deaths for a black man are homicide almost always black vs. black
• 80% of poverty are single-parent homes