Fatherless America?
courtesy of The Liz Library
THE LIZ LIBRARY PRESENTS: HISTORY SERIES
Fatherless Children Series - Biographies of Fatherlessness
The FATHERLESS CHILDREN STORIES are
transcripts from "A Fatherless Minute" series sponsored by
The Liz Library for The Justice Hour radio show on WPBR 1340 AM.
The term "fatherless" is used in this series as it is in current
research and policy rhetoric by the U.S. federal government, DHHS and
the National Fatherhood Initiative, most U.S. states in connection with
child custody law and policy, and various family values and fatherhood
interest policy and lobbying groups. Stories are here. Need to "swipe
and copy" a quick list? here
Fatherless America?
Alexander Hamilton - the author of the Federalist Papers, first
treasurer of the United States, and the founder of America's economic
system.
Twenty-five percent of America's presidents; a majority in America's first fifty years:
President Gen. George Washington - America's first founding father, first president, and most beloved hero.
President Thomas Jefferson - America's third president, and primary author of the Declaration of Independence
President James Monroe - America's fifth president
President Andrew Jackson - America's seventh president
President Andrew Johnson - America's seventeenth president
President Rutherford B. Hayes - America's nineteenth president
President Grover Cleveland - America's twenty-second president
President Herbert Hoover - America's thirty-first president
President Gerald Ford - America's thirty-eighth president
President William Jefferson Clinton - America's forty-second president
Many of America's top jurists:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Wilson
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Rutledge
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd
U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis
U.S. Supreme Court Justice John McKinley
U.S. Supreme Court Ch. Justice (and U.S. Treasury Secretary) Salmon P. Chase
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Melville Fuller
U.S. Supreme Court Ch. Justice Edward D. White
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo
U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas
U.S. Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
More American leaders, heros, icons and achievers:
Frederick Douglas
Gen. Robert E. Lee
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman
Booker T. Washington
Benjamin Rush - a founding father of America, physician and diplomat
Michael Phelps - the world's greatest Olympic athlete and swimmer
Annie Mansfield Sullivan - the "miracle worker", Helen Keller's teacher
Stephen Colbert
George Mason - a founding father of America
Fr. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette - supporter of the American Revolution
Henry Clay
Meriwether Lewis
Eleanor Roosevelt
Jackie Robinson
Mark Twain
George Washington Carver
Nathanial Hawthorne
Linus Carl Pauling
Some of the world's greatest:
Aristotle
Nicolas Copernicus
Sir Isaac Newton
Mahatma Gandhi
Leonardo da Vinci
Confucius
Jesus of Nazareth
Queen Elizabeth I
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jurist William Blackstone
Alexander Fleming - scientist who discovered penicillin
Nelson Mandela
Catherine the Great of Russia
More "fatherless children" (in no particular order):
author Alexandre Dumas
Gen. Alexander Haig
Alabama Governor Bibb Graves
New York Governor Al Smith
Tennessee Governor Sam Houston
Indiana Supreme Court Justice William Allen Woods
U.S. Senator Al Sharpton
U.S. Senator Robert C. "Bob" Smith
U.S. Senator Bella Abzug
U.S. Senator Barack Obama
U.S. Senator (and basketball great) William Warren "Bill" Bradley
Queen Victoria of Britain
U.S. economist, Chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan
industrialist Eli Whitney, Jr.
scientist Alessandro Volta
computer whiz Ada Lovelace
author Jane Austen
industrialist George Eastman (Eastman Kodak)
industrialist Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard)
composer Johann Sebastian Bach
mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
musician John Lennon
author Hans Christian Andersen
scientist Edward Jenner
composer Giacomo Puccini
Iraqi president Saddam Hussein
musician Louis Armstrong
scientist Joseph John ("J.J.") Thomson
philosopher Bertrand Russell
psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach
author Herman Melville
author John Keats
singer Marian Anderson
chess great Garry Kasparov
author Leo Tolstoy
Nobel prize winner Peyton Rous
pioneering surgeon Benjamin Carson
painter Raphael
philosopher David Hume
historian Hannah Arendt
author Ralph Waldo Emerson
composer Stephen Crane
philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche
author Agatha Christie
poet William Wordsworth
zoologist Max Weber
Cleopatra
WWII hero Audie Murphy
psychophysicist Gustav Theodor Fechner
author Edgar Allen Poe
author Emile Zola
geologist William Smith
Canadian rocket scientist Gerald Bull
author Willa Cather
scholar Daniel Dennett
architect Cass Gilbert
archaeologist Mary Leakey
actor Charlie Chaplin
reporter Nelly Bly
physicist Max Born
Sarah Breedlove aka Madam C.J. Walker
comedian Steve Allen
first governor of British India Warren Hastings
detective Allan Pinkerton
singer Billie Holiday
singer Hank Williams
activist Malcolm X
actor Carol Burnett
philanthropist Thomas Green Clemson (Clemson University)
writer John Irving
author J.R.R. Tolkien
actor Charles Bronson
actor Gene Hackman
scientist Robert Hooke
actor Halle Berry
comedian Eddie Murphy
lawyer Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg
female Revolutionary War soldier Deborah Sampson
author Ralph Ellison
California Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird
President of Ireland Eamon de Valera
industrialist William Reddington Hewlett (Hewlett-Packard)
mogul nun Mother Angelica
steamboat inventor Robert Fulton
civil rights attorney Deval Laurdine Patrick
Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters
inventor Henry Talbot
science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke
prosecutor Jim Rogan
cancer researcher Frederick W. Alt
cancer researcher Emil J. Freireich
author Charlotte Perkins Gilman
pilot Bessie Coleman
writer-philosopher Bertrand Russell
U.S. Gen. (Ret.) Wesley Clark
medical researcher Dorothy Andersen
dictator Chiang Kai-shek
fashion designer Coco Chanel
journalist Anderson Hayes Cooper
physician Hunter "Patch" Adams
actor Jack Nicholson
author Roald Dahl
actor Douglas Fairbanks
crystallographer David Harker
composer Irving Berlin
actor Loretta Young
activist Rosa Parks
geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon
actor Barbara Stanwick
actor Steve McQueen
actor/singer Cher
pop psychologist Wayne Dyer
actor Sophia Loren
author Stephen King
political genius Karl Rove
actor Whoopi Goldberg
silent film star Fatty Arbuckle
photographer Dorothea Lange
"father of soul" musician James Brown
activist Gloria Steinem
microwave oven inventor Percy Spencer
actor Gloria Gaynor
immigration reformer Frances Kellor
comedian Jon Stewart
psychologist/ author Peggy Drexler
actor Bette Davis
satiricist Art Buchwald
actor Audrey Hepburn
scientist Katherine Burr Blodgett
scientist Sir Charles Bell
actor Tom Cruise
comedian Bill Cosby
musician Barry White
singer Patsy Cline
actor Jodie Foster
news correspondent Ed Bradley
Tom Monaghan (Domino's Pizza)
baseball player Rickey Henderson... .
The notion is FALSE that children require a certain kind of family
composition (two married biological parents) in order to do well,
rather than that certain family characteristics and lifestyle
advantages (such as educational opportunities, financial opportunities,
stability, attention, and so forth) may be beneficial.
No research has shown that when a child's parents do not live together,
joint custody is in their long-term best interests, or that "the best
parent is two parents." See the research: here, and here, and here, and
here, and here, and still more, along with discussions and articles in
the index here.
(Interesting, though, how "motherlessness" is almost glorified in our society, e.g. Disney.)
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