Fatherlessness Quotes:

The most important domestic challenge facing the U.S. at the close of the twentieth century is the re-creation of fatherhood as avital social role for men. At stake is nothing less than the success of the American experiment. For unless we reverse the trend of fatherlessness, no other set of accomplishments--not economic growth or prison construction or welfare reform or better schools--will succeed in arresting the decline of child well-being and the spread of male violence. To tolerate the trend of fatherlessness is to accept the inevitability of continued social recession.

- David Blankenhorn

topic: Children, School, Men, Social Roles, Fatherlessness

We have a number of difficulties facing our nation, but I believe fatherlessness is right at the top of the list.

- Tony Dungy

topic: Believe, Numbers, Lists, Fatherlessness

When I started studying the issue and issues related to fatherlessness, I realized I had all of them. Fear of intimacy, fear of commitment, poor work ethic, just stuff that you don't have when you don't have a man in your life to look you in the eye and say, "You're good," or "Good job."

- Donald Miller

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Jobs, Commitment, Eye, Fatherlessness, Fear Of Commitment

Fatherlessness is a rot that is eating away at the modern soul.

- Douglas Wilson

source: Douglas Wilson (2012). “Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Soul, Eating, Modern, Fatherlessness

Fatherlessness didn't strike me as being an event. It was a state of life.

- Tom Stoppard

source: "And now, the real thing". Interview with Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

topic: Events, States, Strikes, Fatherlessness

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

- Warren Farrell

topic: Jobs, Boys, Emotional, Fatherlessness, Emotional Health

We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children.

- Barack Obama

topic: Children, Men, Epidemics, Fatherlessness

The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.

- David Blankenhorn

topic: Children, Growing Up, Father, Parity, Fatherless