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Cost & Solutions to Family Fragmentation & Father Absence In Richmond, VA
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Cost & Solutions to Family Fragmentation and Father Absence in Richmond, VA
The Cost The Issue The Solution
pg. 1 pg. 2 pg. 4
About Benjamin Scafidi
The cost of family fragmentation and father absence was calculated using methodology designed by a native of Richmond Benjamin Scafidi, Ph.D., economist from the Georgia Family Council. Dr. Scafidi is also an associate professor in the J. Whitney Bunting School of Business at Georgia College & State University. His research has focused on education and urban policy. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia and his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Sca‐ fidi, his wife Lori Scafidi and their four children reside in Milledgeville, Geor‐ gia.
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The link between poverty and family fragmentation has been well researched and is widely accepted. Family fragmentation and father absence has caused an increase in taxpayer cost to antipoverty programs, justice system programs and education pro‐ grams. Compared with Medicaid and Food Stamps, Justice System costs (courts, police, prisons, jails) present the most likely source for redirecting funds into preventive, alter‐ native and reentry programs as those presented in the Solutions portion of this report.
Cost and Solutions to Family Fragmentation and Father Absence in Richmond The Cost
Much of the public discourse over fatherhood and marriage focuses on two parent homes and marriage as a social, moral or religious institution. “But marriage is also an economic institution, a powerful creator of human and social capital. Increases in divorce and unwed childbearing have broad economic implications, including large expenditures of the federal and state governments.” Scafidi, 2008. This is the first ever report that attempts to...
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Cost & Solutions to Family Fragmentation and Father Absence in Richmond, VA
The Cost The Issue The Solution
pg. 1 pg. 2 pg. 4
About Benjamin Scafidi
The cost of family fragmentation and father absence was calculated using methodology designed by a native of Richmond Benjamin Scafidi, Ph.D., economist from the Georgia Family Council. Dr. Scafidi is also an associate professor in the J. Whitney Bunting School of Business at Georgia College & State University. His research has focused on education and urban policy. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Virginia and his bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Notre Dame. Dr. Sca‐ fidi, his wife Lori Scafidi and their four children reside in Milledgeville, Geor‐ gia.
Note
The link between poverty and family fragmentation has been well researched and is widely accepted. Family fragmentation and father absence has caused an increase in taxpayer cost to antipoverty programs, justice system programs and education pro‐ grams. Compared with Medicaid and Food Stamps, Justice System costs (courts, police, prisons, jails) present the most likely source for redirecting funds into preventive, alter‐ native and reentry programs as those presented in the Solutions portion of this report.
Cost and Solutions to Family Fragmentation and Father Absence in Richmond The Cost
Much of the public discourse over fatherhood and marriage focuses on two parent homes and marriage as a social, moral or religious institution. “But marriage is also an economic institution, a powerful creator of human and social capital. Increases in divorce and unwed childbearing have broad economic implications, including large expenditures of the federal and state governments.” Scafidi, 2008. This is the first ever report that attempts to...