Father’s Importance In College Success

This month, millions of high school seniors across America are making important decisions about which college they will attend for the next four years of their lives. The practical, emotional, and financial sacrifices parents have made and will make for their children, and for their college education in particular, are enormously important. Young adults who as teens had involved fathers are significantly more likely to graduate from college, and young adults from more privileged backgrounds are especially likely to have had an involved father in their lives when they were teens.

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