Though My Child Says Daddy started with the intent of fathers having a more active role in their children's lives, it has grown into a program where both parents, the child, and the entire community-at-large benefit.

Today's family is quite different from that of the past. High divorce rates, teen-age pregnancy and lifestyle choices have increased the number of single parent households. My Child Says Daddy emphasizes the importance of children benefiting from both genders, equally.

Statistics show that children raised in a two-parent household fare better educationally and economically, than those in single parent situations. MCSD tries to simulate the two parent household even when the parents cannot find a way to “be together”. The major focus is always what is best for the child.

Decrease Poverty

• Nearly 75% of children living in single-parent families will expereince poverty before they turn 11 years old. Only 20% of children in 2-parent families will do the same.
• The absence of the father is directly responsible for a poverty rate among infants and toddlers reaching an astonishing 25 percent.
• The National Commission on Children reported changes in the family structure account for much of the increase in child poverty since 1980.

Decrease Welfare Dependency

• Ninety-four percent of the current Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) caseloads are single parent.
• Of the 10 million women with children in father absent homes, 2/3 (67 percent) receive no child support.
• Over $34 billion dollars in child support payments go uncollected, more than twice the amount spent yearly by the federal government on AFDC.

Decrease Crime and Delinquency

• Sixty percent of America's rapists, 72 percent of adolescent murderers, and 70 percent of long term prison inmates all grew up without fathers.
• Seventy percent of juveniles in state reform institutions come from single parent homes.s

Increase Educational Success

• Children living in father absent homes are more likely to be chronically truant and school dropouts.
• Fifteen percent of children living with a never married mother and 10.7 percent of children living with a divorced mother have been expelled or suspended from school compared to 4.4 percent of children living with both parents.
• Nationally, children living in single parent homes repeat grade rate is doubled to those living in tow parent households.

My Child Says Daddy Wants Children To Know They Are Loved.

Fathers Must Come Back Into Their Children's Lives!