Word: fatherlessness
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...years with at least 45 members-adults and boys aged seven to 17 seduced into homosexuality. The ring's activities allegedly ranged to Pittsburgh, Puerto Rico and Los Angeles. Club members supposedly got together on such outwardly innocent enterprises as fishing trips, and then swapped boys, generally fatherless youngsters who had been coaxed into the ring with gifts. Those who threatened to call the authorities were promised beatings and even death...
...will not save his life by confessing to a lie. Building to a powerful crescendo, The Crucible makes its hero (Robert Foxworth) face just that terrible choice. It is so easy to confess and not have to leave his wife (Martha Henry) a widow, his children fatherless. For a long moment he is tempted, and then he looks into an abyss darker than the loss of his life: the death of his soul...
...lived for a year in Bedford-Stuyvesant (central Brooklyn), the worst ghetto in the U.S., and took part in building an integrated Community Development Center. We found the overwhelming majority of black people in Bed-Sty neither happy, courageous, nor even remotely "coping." Alcohol, drugs, prostitution, pervasive gambling, fatherless babies, teen-age dropouts, robbery and mugging are daily accelerating facts of life for the majority of whipped, defeated, unstable black victims of white institutionalized racism. Most blacks in the ghetto do suffer-not exotically, but horribly. Coles' misinterpretation denies the critical need for a radical reordering of the allocation...
...Peggy Fleish, a New York travel agent with a two-year-old son named Peter. "Men know it, and lots of them try to take advantage of it. They think, 'Here's an easy trick.' " Another difficulty is providing masculine influence in the life of a fatherless child. For this, Peggy relies on friends and her family (her father and brother are "crazy about Peter"). "It's nice when a beau comes to pick me up for dinner and plays horsy with Peter on the floor," she says...
...nature. With her usual demanding expectations, Miss Hester married a dashing young man, whose chief qualification was his resemblance, on horseback, to her ideal of a Confederate officer. Off the horse, he turned out to be a cad. Miss Hester-as rigid as she was frigid-raised her two fatherless sons more or less as if Appomattox (and her marriage) had never happened...