Fatherlessness

Quick meaning: Fatherlessness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being fatherless (not having a (living) father).

Meaning

The state or quality of being fatherless (not having a (living) father).

Example Sentences

Obama did not respond to his fatherlessness or his racial predicament with anger and rage, but as questions for investigation, conversation and synthesis.

Speaking about the epidemic of fatherlessness in black families, Mr. Cosby imagined a young fatherless child thinking: “Somewhere in my life a person called my father has not shown up, and I feel very sad about this because I don’t know if I’m ugly — I don’t know what the reason is.”

His themes have also been sounded by the comedian Bill Cosby, who has stirred debate among black Americans by bluntly speaking about an epidemic of fatherlessness in African-American families while suggesting that some blacks use racism as a crutch to explain the lack of economic progress.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include parentlessness, familylessness, unfatherliness, motherlessness, childlessness, friendlessness.

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