Whether you call it a "single-mother household" or a "fatherless home" doesn't change the fact that it's common and sets the kid up for failure. The stats are clear: boys need their fathers, ideally in a loving relationship with their mother.

While both boys and girls suffer from a father’s absence, the lack of a father figure results in many legal, intellectual, emotional, and behavioral problems.

Being raised in a broken home by a single mother/absent father is the perfect recipe for becoming a weak and ineffective man. I know this because I was raised in this setting, and I had to overcome many problems before becoming the person I am today.

The environment breeds single mothers and produces fatherless homes that tend to lack examples for boys to follow into becoming men. There are rarely any examples of productive citizens in these places to emulate

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Effects of father absence: The stats about fatherlessness don’t lie

What follows in this article is largely anecdotal evidence and personal observation. However, my experiences and what I’ve seen are largely reflected in the data about children raised without fathers or children living with their mothers for most of their childhood.

Consider these stats about fatherlessness from fatherhood.org and all4kids.org: