Word: fatherlessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sociologists have long commented on the plight of the fatherless Black family. But Marco Williams '81 has a uniquely personal perspective to offer: The young filmmaker's first documentary details his struggle to find his own father...
...Search of Our Fathers," which will air on PBS tomorrow at 9 p.m., tells the story of Williams' fatherless upbringing through the eyes of his family members, Williams said in an interview this month...
These kids, most of whom I spoke with over those three months, were the product of declining America. At least 60 percent came from fatherless households. Some dealt drugs before work. In the back of their minds, the other kids knew that for all their hard work they would make about one tenth, if not less, of what the dealers made that...
...place where such problems could be kept secret. Billy's friends, teachers, counselors and pastors never knew what violence he faced when he went home. Staley lived next door when the Clintons' brief (three-month) divorce was still in effect, and did not realize that her friend was fatherless during that period. Eventually, Roger convinced Virginia that he could reform. Her son, 15 at the time, argued that he would never change and tried to persuade his mother not to remarry him. Why, I ask, did she? "She was old-fashioned and thought she must be to blame in some...
...show." He praised Quayle's speech in a private call to the Vice President, but failed to adopt the message as his own. Throughout the improbable spectacle of a White House pitted against a sitcom character and her real-life defenders, there was a serious undercurrent. The growth in fatherless families, after all, is encouraged less by television than by welfare policies that punish poor mothers who marry -- policies that Bush and Quayle should change if they are serious about this subject...