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H. C. R. No. 16 As Introduced

As Introduced

128th General Assembly

Regular Session

2009-2010

H. C. R. No. 16

Representative Miller

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

To request the President of the United States to create a National Commission on Fatherhood.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF OHIO
(THE SENATE CONCURRING):

       WHEREAS, Eighty per cent of American children born during the post-World War II baby boom could expect to grow up with biological parents who were married to one another; and

       WHEREAS, Today, only fifty per cent of American children will spend their childhoods in intact families; and

       WHEREAS, Thirty-four per cent of children live without their biological fathers; and

       WHEREAS, Twenty-seven per cent of children live in single parent households; and

       WHEREAS, Forty per cent of children living without their biological fathers have not seen their fathers during the past year; and

       WHEREAS, Fifty per cent of children living without their biological fathers have not visited their fathers' homes; and

       WHEREAS, In 2006, approximately twenty-six per cent of households in Ohio were headed by single parents with minor children; and

       WHEREAS, In 2006, approximately forty per cent of newborns born in Ohio were born to unmarried parents; and

       WHEREAS, Divorce, and nonmarital childbearing, are commonplace in the United States and dramatically alter children's lives; and

       WHEREAS, Children living without their biological fathers are two to three times more likely than their peers living with married, biological, or adoptive parents to live in low-income homes; use drugs; experience health, educational, emotional, and behavioral problems; be victims of child abuse; and engage in criminal behavior; and

       WHEREAS, The Ohio Commission on Fatherhood and numerous additional groups have been established to address fatherhood; and

       WHEREAS, The issues discussed herein are so pervasive in the United States that the issue of fatherhood should be addressed by the federal government; now therefore be it

       RESOLVED, That the General Assembly of the State of Ohio respectfully requests the President of the United States to create a National Commission on Fatherhood; and be it further

       RESOLVED, That the Clerk of the House of Representatives transmit duly authenticated copies of this resolution to the President of the United States, the Governor of the State of Ohio, the members of the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood, and the news media of Ohio.