fatherless

How To Use fatherless In A Sentence

• This sort of crime is typically found amongst populations living on benefits housed by the rest of us, usually in fatherless communities where employment is rare and 90% marginal rates of tax keeps it that way. Archive 2007-05-06
• With fatherlessness a growing problem, this failure wreaks havoc, particularly in disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Times, Sunday Times
• He describes the sociological evidence delineating the impact of fatherlessness upon children.
• His long periods abroad left the family virtually fatherless.
• If marriage is invincible, indelibly written on the human heart, untouchable or only slightly touched by culture, where do all these fatherless families come from?
• Have we made marriage less attractive to men by pretending that men are expendable, that fatherless families are just "alternative family forms?"
• Given the extent of this hostility to the creation of ‘fatherless’ children, some concession was needed in order to neutralise parliamentary opposition to the bill.
• My fatherless children are alone up in Orkney while I beg for money.
• He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.
• The usual supplications were offered, with more than the usual significancy in such a place, for the fatherless children and widows, for all sick persons and young children, for all that were desolate and oppressed, for the comforting and helping of the weak-hearted, for the raising-up of them that had fallen; for all that were in danger, necessity, and tribulation. Reprinted Pieces