(a.) Destitute of a living father; as, a fatherless child.
(a.) Without a known author.
Example Sentences:
(1) This has been stimulated by sociological concerns for one-parent, fatherless families (Adams, 1973) and by our realizing how historically neglected has been the paternal role in theories of child development.
(2) The authors examine studies on the social, emotional, and psychosexual development of children raised in fatherless heterosexual or in lesbian families and conclude that these studies do not support the assumption of the Warnock Committee.
(3) Here is the point: poverty is not just about income; it is about a range of factors – most notably family breakdown – that contribute to poverty, and which can be only be addressed in "wraparound" ways: children who experience family breakdown do less well in education; debt places severe strains on personal relationships; coming from a workless household can inoculate young people against developing a work ethic; fatherlessness can create a sense of despair that finds, at best, temporary relief in alcohol and drugs; an education system that takes no account of chaos back home can lead many young girls to get pregnant before they are really ready to do the difficult work of parenting.
(4) Interest in fatherhood is increasing dramatically because of the rates of fatherlessness in countries such as South Africa and the startling range of social issues that accompany such rates including gender-based violence, academic achievement of boys and girls, HIV transmission to infants and maternal and newborn mortality in general.
(5) Non compliant patient families had lower incomes, more fatherless households, and comunication difficulties within the family and with the medical establishment.
(6) Photograph: Mohammad Ojjeh Fatherless, husbandless, homeless … When I ask a man where he'd come from he changed the name of his town from Kafranboodeh to Kafr Mahdoomeh, "the Demolished Village".
(7) When the widowed and fatherless women made initial journeys to it, and the graves of their dead, they faced baying Bosnian Serb crowds brandishing the portrait of Ratko Mladic.
(8) Significantly higher rates of psychiatric disorders were found for the fatherless boys, whereas no such effect could be detected for the fatherless girls.
(9) Herzog and Sudia (1971) have recently compiled an extensive bibliography of the fatherless family.
(10) It was an absence that came to define her: the waiting woman, the mother, two fatherless daughters, the carrier of the torch.
(11) From an examination of the effects on children of growing up in fatherless heterosexual and lesbian families, this paper questions that assumption.
(12) The commonest reasons for referral of the 157 new patients to the social worker over this study period were extreme poverty; housing, matrimonial, and psychiatric problems; and problems of fatherless families.
(13) However, this was not accounted for by the present dietary findings, since fatherless children had lower intakes of carbohydrate and added sugar.
(14) The children who have ever lived in one-parent families are selected for more detailed examination, such as the reasons for their parental situation, the age their families broke up and the ratio of motherless to fatherless at each age.
(15) The first world war left 360,000 children fatherless.
(16) It was my father’s second wife who found it troubling when her fully parented children were occasionally exposed to their fatherless half-siblings.
(17) Psychotherapy of some fatherless adult patients suggests that they may replace the shameful experience of their childhood by an illusory picture of their past, and that they may exalt their absent fathers to an ideal perfection in order not to face the possibility that their fathers might have been irresponsible deserters.
(18) The aliens in New Mexico were from space whereas I was a poor fatherless Jew in a Baptist area of Georgia.
(19) Fourteen of Qureshi’s cousins were left fatherless.
(20) Furthermore, fatherlessness remains a neglected issue.
Orphan
Definition:
(n.) A child bereaved of both father and mother; sometimes, also, a child who has but one parent living.
(a.) Bereaved of parents, or (sometimes) of one parent.
(v. t.) To cause to become an orphan; to deprive of parents.
Example Sentences:
(1) It comes in defiant journalism, like the story televised last week of a gardener in Aleppo who was killed by bombs while tending his roses and his son, who helped him, orphaned.
(2) An Artist of the Floating World won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was nominated for the Booker prize for fiction; The Remains of the Day won the Booker; and When We Were Orphans, perceived by many reviewers as a disappointment, was nominated for both the Booker and the Whitbread.
(3) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved beta-carotene for use in humans for prevention of the photosensitivity associated with the orphan disease, erythropoietic protoporphyria.
(4) It has recorded donations totalling around £175,000 since 2002, and said in its latest Charity Commission accounts that money had been spent on mosque building projects, funding for orphan children, and refugee projects in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
(5) Some 25,000 orphans in central Malawi are fed, clothed and housed by Madonna's charity.
(6) An additional 281 drugs and 141 biologicals have been entered into development and designated as orphans.
(7) In 2005, four years after Adam's body was found, two women and a man were convicted of child cruelty for torturing and threatening to kill an orphaned refugee who they claimed was a witch.
(8) And while I also believe that banning adoptions by Americans is unethical (this is personal for me – as an American, I am also now banned from adopting, and as a young mother, I find something seriously wrong with this), I also believe that Russia's orphan problem can be solved by making changes that must happen on a local level, and not as the result of a top-down decree.
(9) Others, who lost everyone, took in orphans in an attempt to rebuild a family.
(10) This includes safe disposal of bodies – which are highly infectious – tracing the contacts of people who are sick, protecting orphans and children left without families, raising awareness in communities of the risks of infection, providing food, clothing, medical supplies, water and sanitation services and also running some treatment centres.
(11) As part of their studies, orphans at the centre will be taught a curriculum based on Spirituality for Kids, linked to the Kabbalah school of mysticism, of which Madonna is a follower.
(12) Abraham’s uncle, who is already looking after three sets of orphaned relatives, said he would care for his nephew despite struggling to feed his enlarged family.
(13) "Pepfar would include one additional element: caring for victims of Aids, especially orphans.
(14) We must sent a strong message to the orphaned mothers who have lost their children that we stand beside our people."
(15) Here dominate some drugs for AIDS, which is a significant problem in medicine, but also some drugs for rare diseases ("orphan drugs"), like Gaucher's disease, precocious puberty etc.
(16) Of these children, 28% lived with their families, 30% were orphans, and 42% were abandoned.
(17) He said: “Among the horror of the refugee crisis, one of the most harrowing images has been the thousands of orphaned children fleeing conflict.” “Britain has always been a compassionate and welcoming country, and I am delighted that the government has finally, after months of pressure, committed to vital humanitarian aid.
(18) But the number of orphans we found was far more than we could cater for.
(19) In 2007, with war raging in Darfur, they realised that the orphans left stranded by the conflict would need a new home.
(20) The charity sent hundreds of social workers across the country to urban and rural communities to establish the true extent of the orphan problem.