The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up wi...th his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep... himself unspotted from the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortun...e to be childless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, you Yankees and your holy principle about savin' the Union. You're plunderin' pirates that's what. Well, you think there's n...o Confederate army where you're goin'. You think our boys are asleep down here. Well, they'll catch up to you and they'll cut you to pieces you, you nameless, fatherless scum. I wish I could be there to see it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And there is nothing in the eye, Shut shutter of the mineral man... Who takes the fatherless dark to bed, The acid sky to the brain-pan; And calls the crows to peck his head.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There by some wrinkled stones round a leafless tree With beards askew, their eyes dull and wild... Twelve ragged men, the council of charity Wandering the face of the earth a fatherless child....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one ...is ended! the world is gone for me! If I must live on (and I will do nothing to make me worse than I am), it is henceforth for our poor fatherless children--for my unhappy country, which has lost all in losing him--and in only doing what I know and feel he would wish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as c...lose and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderl...y toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »