Essays on Fatherlessness

Literature Review

Prevalence of Absent Fathers In the United States, the number of absentee fathers has been increasing. Whether this trend is due to factors such as work, divorce, out-of-wedlock births, never-married mothers, incarceration, or new family dynamics like changing gender roles in the family, it is known that fatherless children experience much high risk factors than their peers. According to the National Center for Fathering (2016), in the United States there are an estimated 24.7 million children living without their biological fathers. In the 1960’s only 5.3% of children were born out-of-wedlock, in 2010 that percent has risen to ...

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Because of the increasing number, geographical expansion, and demographic changes of the menace of street gangs from the 1990s, there has been a consistent call for a policy guideline on the best way that could be used to deal with the gang challenge. Mostly, the gang problem is an urban problem, and is usually a protection unit for poor minority youths in the inner city. By mid 1990s, the age for gang members was increasing and so was the ethnic diversity. Some of the gang members spread across the country. Law enforcement attempt to deal with the gang problem mostly did not ...

My Oedipus Complex is a story written by Frank O’Connor. The story is set in small town of Ireland shortly before the Second World War. In the book, O’Connor tentatively intertwines the lives of Larry, Sonny, and Mother and Father. The story exhibits high levels of humor and of unexpected occurrences between mother and son. The story begins at the end of the First World War and the character Larry is enjoying his life a great deal. With just him and the mother, Larry gets all the attention he gets from his loving mother. Larry even goes ahead to ...

My research paper explores the issue of fatherlessness in American society. For the sake of my research problem, we defined fatherlessness using Johnson’s definition. According to Johnson, fatherliness refers to the youth whose biological fathers are usually absent or youth who are without regular paternal oversight from a nurturing adult male (2010). This implies that father figure‘s role can be formed by step dads, bigger brothers, or in some cases. David Blankenhorn (19950, p. 5.) wrote that the “U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with ...

John Updike’s “Separating” is perhaps of the most common short stories written about American culture and family. In “Separating,” Updike’s central focus is the separation of a couple that has enjoyed everything good and has almost realized the beauty of American dream. The central theme here is the tantalizing and often grotesque ideas of separation, rejection, and the sad things that come out of such desolation. In short, “Separation” is about the unfulfilled American marital dream. Similar in theme but distant in tone is Major Sullivan’s: My Very Dear Wife,” in this epistle, Major Sullivan a war hero ...

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Sylvia Plath was definitely a personage of great tragedy yet she was also a person who imbued the feminism of her age and who could not cope with the depression which tormented her life which ended at the young age of 30. She was a poet with a fierce sense of independence and originality but intrinsically very proud of her sexuality and prowess in that area. In fact her poetry can be rather lurid and direct at times showing the way forward for female sexual liberation accordingly. However the situation which really affected her life and eventual suicide was the lack of a father ...