Jubilee Youth Center

The Problem

"The average expected experience of childhood now includes living in the absence of one’s natural father."1 This includes a staggering 72% of African American and 53% of Latino children being born out of wedlock. Moreover, the number of Caucasian children born out of wedlock has grown by 300% since 1975.2

Consider the devastating impact of fatherlessness:

• Fatherless children are 4x more likely to live in poverty and 2x more likely to end up in jail.
• 71% of high school dropouts come from fatherless homes
• 71% of teen moms come from fatherless homes
• 90% of teens in gangs come from fatherless homes3

The need is urgent within the inner-cities of America. Brokenness abounds in many forms—fatherlessness, poverty, crime, poor quality education, spiritual lostness. And far too many young men and women in our neighborhood have no one to walk with them through these challenges.

1 U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

2 Grip Outreach for Youth, "The Problem of Fatherlessness 2016"

3 Statistics taken from Grip Outreach for Youth, "Fatherlessness in 2018"