Meaning of fatherlessness | Babel Free

Definitions

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

uncountable

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Examples

“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.””

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

“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⟳.”

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