Quotes About Fatherlessness

#1. If it were classified as a disease, fatherlessness would be an epidemic worthy of attention as a national emergency. . . . Fatherlessness is associated with almost every societal ill facing our country's children.

Lacey Sturm

#2. Jesus Christ came to this earth to resolve the problem of fatherlessness, which is a major cause of sexual perversion.

Sunday Adelaja

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. The most fundamental flaw in society is fatherlessness.

Cassie Carstens

#6. My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.

Mary Gordon

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

Tony Dungy

#8. 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

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

Tom Stoppard

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

Douglas Wilson

#11. I don't think there is such a definition of a perfect family, but I do think that our marriages are in crisis. Our families are in crisis. And I think the African-American family is at one of the worst stages it's been at in a very long time in this country. Fatherlessness is rampant.

Leah Ward Sears

#12. To save our imperiled honor everything must be sacrificed, even virtue.

Jean Racine

#13. There are men with guns up there. When they see me, they will kill me, if they can," I
tell my father quietly. I search his eyes. "Should I let them?"
He stares at me for a few seconds.
"Go," he says, "and God help you.

Veronica Roth

#14. That's when he finally turns his head to look at me. As he rubs himself, he swallows, and I see his Adam's apple bob roughly. "I need to know.

Sarina Bowen

#15. If you remember only one thing I've said, remember that an idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor. If you have never made a good metaphor, then you don't know what it's all about.

Robert Frost

#16. We all want love. We all want affection and admiration. But there will inevitably be people determined to hate you no matter what you do. And chances are, their approval isn't worth your struggle to get it.

Maggie Young

#17. The world is aware how jealously the Jewish community guards the Holocaust, both as a memory and a weapon.

David Klinghoffer

#18. Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which is itself beauty, irrespective of complexion or contour.

Thomas Hardy

#19. Were we all, the whole upper crust of Russian society, so totally insensitive, so horribly obtuse, as not to feel that the charmed life that we were leading was in itself an injustice and hence could not possibly last?

Nicolas Nabokov