The Sexual Behavior in the Fatherless teens

09Adolescent females between the ages of 15 and 19 years reared in homes
without fathers are significantly more likely to engage in premarital sex than
adolescent females reared in homes with both a mother and a father. --Source:
Billy, John O. G., Karin L. Brewster and William R. Grady. "Contextual Effects
on the Sexual Behavior of Adolescent Women." Journal of Marriage and Family
56(1994): 381-404. A white teenage girl from an advantaged background is five
times more likely to become a teen mother if she grows up in a single-mother
household than if she grows up in a household with both biological parents.
--Source: Whitehead, Barbara Dafoe. "Facing the Challenges of Fragmented
Families." The Philanthropy Roundtable 9.1 (1995): 21.