Word: fatherlessness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money for the infant's funeral but then leave the body at a crematorium with a note that reads, "A Present for the French Consul." Hippies lie stoned and malnourished on the beaches of Goa: a young European woman sits for days in a stupor with her fatherless child hanging onto a withered breast; a cult of ritual murderers, known as the Anand Marg, stalks the streets for victims; an American would-be rabbi buys a six-year-old waif from her father and is shocked when she attempts to demonstrate her gratitude with sexual favors...
...Gossett Jr.) and Trapper John, M.D. (a M* A* S* H spin-off starring Pernell Roberts and set 28 years after the Korean War). ABC's sitcom The Associates, from the creators of Taxi, takes place in a Wall Street law firm. Other new sitcoms are built around fatherless families, in imitation of CBS's long-running Norman Lear sitcom One Day at a Time. Shirley Jones, years ago a single mom in The Partridge Family, will do it again on NBC's hour-long Shirley. Eileen Brennan gets her own set of kiddies...
There he works, in conjunction with a team of psychologists, in a "big brother" type program with a fatherless nine-year-old from the Martha Eliot Housing Project in Jamaica Plains...
...high school team lost: "The one outstanding quality Morgan has is his honesty. When you are streetwise like I was, you learn to read that." Sid Catlett, a Notre Dame graduate who had a brief NBA career, credits Wootten with turning his life around. Catlett had been fatherless since the age of three. When he went to De Matha, Catlett, now an electronics executive, turned to Wootten for guidance. Says he: "In my neighborhood, I could have gotten into all kinds of trouble. Morgan could be a friend, coach or manly role model-depending on what was needed...
...because of his power, rather than love." At the same time, a whole generation of West German youth grew up in the dark about their fathers' wartime activities. A child did not ask: "What did you do in the war, Daddy?" Thus, in one sense, Germany produced a "fatherless generation." Lichter speculates that "after generations of German fathers dominating the family it is possible that some thing of this got tied in with the kids' feelings that the fathers had lost their legitimacy." In addition, according to the Rothman-Lichter theory, America represented authority and goodness...