(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.
Parentless
Definition:
(a.) Deprived of parents.
Example Sentences:
(1) Klebsiella pneumoniae Mir M7 is a spontaneous parentless morphology mutant which grows as cocci at pH 7 and as rods at pH 5.8.
(2) She also took with us a four-year-old boy who was parentless and she spent months searching for his relatives, who she did finally track down.
(3) We would, then, have to fend for ourselves, and I imagined a parentless pack of us unwanted mongrels, hunting for food in the nearby woods.
(4) Crook said that the separation of 17,000 children from their mothers was causing long-term emotional, social, material and psychological damage with little or no dedicated support: "If a single mother is sent to prison she will, at least temporarily, lose her children and children become effectively parentless," she said.