Preparing inmates to be better fathers

Dustin Reeves, middle, misses the companionship of his father, who will serve two more years in prison RELATED VIDEO CNN's Brian Cabell reports on a program instructing prisoners about fatherhood Windows Media 28K 80K

June 20, 1999
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(CNN) -- In Mississippi, which has the highest rate of children living in homes without fathers, a pilot program is teaching men in prison how to be better fathers once they are released.

On average, children living without their biological fathers are more likely to be poor, suffer from physical abuse and engage in criminal behavior than children who live with their married parents.

CNN's Brian Cabell reports on the fatherhood initiative and its goal of keeping children from following in their troubled father's footsteps.

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