28.7.11

Fatherless America? Yes indeed!

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The effects of father absence can be seen in the fatherless children stories. Below is a list of famous fatherless children who grew up in father-absent homes and achieved greatness

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FATHERLESS AMERICA- The Childhoods of Historical Figures in American History

THE LIZ LIBRARY PRESENTS: HISTORY SERIES
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The term "fatherless" ("fatherlessness" or "father-absent") is used in this series as it is in research and "father absence" policy rhetoric by the U.S. government, DHHS, the National Fatherhood Initiative, U.S. states in connection with child custody law and policy, and various family values and fatherhood policy and lobbying groups.

Brief stories of fatherless children can be found here. A list of famous fatherless children, all of whom grew up in father-absent homes, and succeeded in achieving greatness, can be found here.

Citations to research and studies can be found
here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.



The effects of fatherlessness??
Fatherless America? Yes indeed!



Alexander Hamilton – the author of the Federalist Papers, first treasurer of the United States, and the founder of America’s economic system.


John Hancock – president of the Continental Congress, signer of the Declaration of Independence, and financial underwriter of the American Revolution.



    More than a quarter (27%) of U.S. presidents —
    a majority of U.S. presidents in America’s first 50 years:



U.S. President Gen. George Washington – America’s first founding father, first president, and most beloved hero.


U.S. President Thomas Jefferson – America’s third president, and primary author of the Declaration of Independence


U.S. President James Monroe – America’s fifth president


U.S. President Andrew Jackson – America’s seventh president


U.S. President Andrew Johnson – America’s seventeenth president


U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes – America’s nineteenth president


U.S. President James A. Garfield – America’s twentieth president


U.S. President Grover Cleveland – America’s twenty-second president


U.S. President Herbert Hoover – America’s thirty-first president


U.S. President Gerald Ford – America’s thirty-eighth president


U.S. President William Jefferson Clinton – America’s forty-second president


U.S. President Barack Obama – America’s forty-fourth president



    Many of America’s top jurists:



U.S. Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo


U.S. Supreme Court Ch. Justice (and U.S. Treasury Secretary) Salmon P. Chase


U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Davis


U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Melville Fuller


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg


U.S. Supreme Court Justice John McKinley


U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Rutledge


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas


U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd


U.S. Supreme Court Ch. Justice Edward D. White


U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Wilson



    More American leaders, heros, icons and achievers:



George Washington Carver


U.S. Senator Henry Clay


Stephen Colbert


Frederick Douglas


Nathanial Hawthorne


Fr. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette – supporter of the American Revolution


Gen. Robert E. Lee


Meriwether Lewis


George Mason – a founding father of America


Linus Carl Pauling (Nobel Prize x 2)


Michael Phelps – the world’s greatest Olympic athlete and swimmer


Jackie Robinson


Eleanor Roosevelt


Benjamin Rush – a founding father of America, physician and diplomat


Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman


Annie Mansfield Sullivan – the "miracle worker", Helen Keller’s teacher


Mark Twain


Booker T. Washington



    Some of the world’s greatest:



Michael Lamb says that fatherlessness is not really a risk.  It's about the relationship with the caregiving parent, the level of support a child receives, and the harmoniousness of the environment.Aristotle


Jurist William Blackstone


Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Theresa


Julius Caesar


Catherine the Great of Russia


Cleopatra


Confucius


Nicolas Copernicus


Queen Elizabeth Ialso at The Liz Library Women’s History Collection


Alexander Fleming – scientist who discovered penicillin


Mahatma Gandhi


Jesus of Nazareth


Johannes Kepler


Nelson Mandela


Muhammed – prophet of Islam


Sir Isaac Newton


Plato


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


King Solomon – Biblical icon


Leonardo da Vinci



    More "fatherless children" (alphabetically):



U.S. Senator Bella Abzug


physician Hunter "Patch" Adams


comedian Steve Allen


cancer researcher Frederick W. Alt


medical researcher Dorothy Andersen


author Hans Christian Andersen


singer Marian Anderson


mogul nun Mother Angelica


poet Maya Angelou (Marguerite Annie Johnson)


silent film star Fatty Arbuckle


historian Hannah Arendt


cyclist Lance Armstrong


musician Louis Armstrong


author Ivo Andric’  (Nobel Prize)


author Jane Austen


actor Lauren Bacall


composer Johann Sebastian Bach


author Charles Baudelaire


Isabella Baumfree (Sojourner Truth)


scientist Sir Charles Bell


composer Irving Berlin


actor Halle Berry


California Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird


legendary surfer Tom Blake


scientist Katherine Burr Blodgett


reporter Nelly Bly


physicist Max Born


"Father of Chemistry" Robert Boyle (Boyle’s Law)


news correspondent Ed Bradley


U.S. Senator (and basketball great) William Warren "Bill" Bradley


actor Benjamin Bratt


scientist Herbert C. Brown (Nobel Prize Chemistry)


author Les Brown


Ralph Johnson Bunche (Nobel Peace Prize 1950)


molecular scientist Geoffrey Burnstock


poet Lord Byron (George Gordon)


Sarah Breedlove aka Madam C.J. Walker


actor Charles Bronson


actor Pierce Brosnan


"father of soul" musician James Brown


comedian Lenny Bruce


satiricist Art Buchwald


Canadian rocket scientist Gerald Bull


actor Carol Burnett


vaudevillian George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum)


philosopher Albert Camus (Nobel Prize)


author Elias Canetti (Nobel Prize)


cancer researcher Mario Capecchi (Nobel Prize)


author Truman Capote


first "celebrity chef" Antonin Careme


comedian George Carlin


pioneering surgeon Benjamin Carson


author Willa Cather


scientist Ernst B. Chain (Nobel Prize)


fashion designer Coco Chanel


actor Charlie Chaplin


Oona O’Neil Chaplin


actor/singer Cher


author Agatha Christie


musician Eric Clapton


computer guru Jim Clark (Silicon Graphics, Netscape)


author Mary Higgins Clark


U.S. Gen. (Ret.) Wesley Clark


science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke


philanthropist Thomas Green Clemson (Clemson University)


singer Patsy Cline


pilot Bessie Coleman


educator Ward Connerly


journalist Anderson Hayes Cooper


comedian Bill Cosby


scientist Donald Cram (Nobel Prize Chemistry)


composer Stephen Crane


actor Tom Cruise


author Roald Dahl


actor Dorothy Dandridge


actor-comedian Rodney Dangerfield


actor Bette Davis


actor James Dean


scholar Daniel Dennett


psychologist/author Peggy Drexler


author Alexandre Dumas


pop psychologist Wayne Dyer


industrialist George Eastman (Eastman Kodak)


psychologist Albert Ellis


computer scientist Clarence Ellis


author Ralph Ellison


author Ralph Waldo Emerson


rapper Eminem (Marshall Bruce Mathers III)


U.S. Senator John Ensign


psychologist Erik Erikson


actor Douglas Fairbanks


psychophysicist Gustav Theodor Fechner


politician Geraldine Ferraro


singer Ella Fitzgerald


actor Jodie Foster


cancer researcher Emil J. Freireich


educator Frederick Wilhelm August Froebel


poet Robert Frost


steamboat inventor Robert Fulton


author/businessman Chris Gardner (The Art of Happyness)


social reformer/journalist William Lloyd Garrison


actor Gloria Gaynor


author Andre Gide (Nobel Prize)


architect Cass Gilbert


actor Melissa Gilbert


author Charlotte Perkins Gilman


actor Paulette Goddard


actor Whoopi Goldberg


actor Cuba Gooding


writer Kenneth Grahame


Alabama Governor Bibb Graves


U.S. economist, Chair of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan


scientist Theodore Grutthuss (Nobel Peace Prize 1950)


actor Gene Hackman


Gen. Alexander Haig


nuclear engineer Susanna Harding


crystallographer David Harker


first governor of British India Warren Hastings


opera singer Catherine "Kate" Hayes


economist Henry Hazlitt


Alan J. Heegar (Nobel Prize Chemistry 2000)


baseball player Rickey Henderson


actor Audrey Hepburn


conductor Victor Herbert


geophysicist J. Marvin Herndon


scientist Gerhard Herzberg (Nobel Prize Chemistry 1971)


industrialist William Reddington Hewlett (Hewlett-Packard)


union organizer, poet, author Joe Hill


pharmaceutical researcher George Hitchings (Nobel Prize)


singer Billie Holliday


scientist Robert Hooke


Tennessee Governor Sam Houston


industrialist Roy Wilson Howard (Scripps-Howard)


U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hamilton Hoyer


writer Langston Hughes


philosopher David Hume


Iraqi president Saddam Hussein


writer John Irving


civil rights activist and politician Jesse Jackson


scientist Edward Jenner


actor Carolyn Jones (Morticia)


dictator Chiang Kai-shek


chess great Garry Kasparov


MIT political scientist William Weed Kaufman


research physician Judith Kaur


author John Keats


social scientist reformer Frances Alice Kellor


author Stephen King


singer Eartha Kitt


physiologist Karl Landsteiner (Nobel Prize)


vocalist Kathryn Dawn Lang (k.d. lang)


photographer Dorothea Lange


archaeologist Mary Leakey


mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz


musician John Lennon


literary critic John Leonard


economist Sir Arthur Lewis (Nobel Prize)


author Barry Lopez


actor Sophia Loren


computer whiz Ada Lovelace


actor-comedian Bernie Mac


baseball great Billy Martin


author Harry Martinsson (Nobel Prize)


actor Steve McQueen


economist Franco Modigliani (Nobel Prize)


author Lucy Montgomery


author Herman Melville


author J. R. Moehringer(Pulitzer Prize)


Tom Monaghan (Domino’s Pizza)


actor Marilyn Monroe


U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan


WWII hero Audie Murphy


comedian Eddie Murphy


musician Willie Nelson


actor Jack Nicholson


philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche


activist Rosa Parks


Massachusetts Gov. and civil rights attorney Deval Laurdine Patrick


Secretary of the Air Force F. Whitten Peters


detective Allan Pinkerton


poet Sylvia Plath


author Edgar Allen Poe


composer Giacomo Puccini


short story writer Horacio Quiroga


painter Raphael


actor Doris Roberts


prosecutor Jim Rogan


psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach


scientist Peyton Rous (Nobel Prize)


political genius Karl Rove


philosopher Bertrand Russell


Lewis & Clark guide Sacagawea


Revolutionary War soldier Deborah Sampson


businessman Colonel Harland Sanders (Kentucky Fried Chicken)


President of France, Nicolas Sarkozy


philosopher-author Jean-Paul Sartre (Nobel Prize)


beauty products businessman Vidal Sassoon


lawyer Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg


U.S. Senator Al Sharpton


Washington State Senator Paull Shin


rock star Gene Simmons


New York Governor Al Smith


U.S. Senator Robert C. "Bob" Smith


geologist William Smith


author Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize)


microwave oven inventor Percy Spencer


Russian dictator Joseph Stalin


writer Henry Morton Stanley


actor Barbara Stanwyck


musician Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey Jr.)


activist Gloria Steinem


comedian Jon Stewart


author Jonathan Swift


inventor Henry Talbot


actor/director Quentin Tarantino


physicist Joseph John ("J.J.") Thomson (Nobel Prize)


scientist Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius (Nobel Prize)


author J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings)


author Leo Tolstoy


singer Tina Turner


boxer Mike Tyson


novelist Sigrid Undset (Nobel Prize)


physical chemist Harold Clayton Urey (Nobel Prize)


musician Ritchie Valens


President of Ireland Eamon de Valera


Queen Victoria of Britain


scientist Alessandro Volta


poet Derek Walcott (Nobel Prize)


zoologist Max Weber


television anchor Bill Weir


singer Hank Williams


scientist Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (Nobel Prize Physics)


musician Barry White


industrialist Eli Whitney, Jr.


Indiana Supreme Court Justice William Allen Woods


poet William Wordsworth


author Richard Wright


activist Malcolm X


actor Loretta Young


author Emile Zola


and many, many more….




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, andhere, 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.)
At thelizlibrary.org, we don’t "hate men". We hate lies.




Alexander Hamilton – President Gen. George Washington – President Thomas Jefferson – President James Monroe – President Andrew Jackson – President Andrew Johnson – President Rutherford B. Hayes – President James A. Garfield – President Herbert Hoover – President Grover Cleveland – President Gerald Ford – President William Jefferson Clinton – President Barack Obama – U.S. Supreme Court Justice James Wilson – U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Rutledge – John Hancock – 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 – Frederick Douglas – Gen. Robert E. Lee – Booker T. Washington – Benjamin Rush – Stephen Colbert – George Mason – Maya Angelou – Fr. Gen. Marquis de Lafayette – U.S. Senator Henry Clay – William Tecumseh Sherman – Meriwether Lewis – Eleanor Roosevelt – Donald Cram – Jackie Robinson – Mark Twain – George Washington Carver – Nathanial Hawthorne – Eli Whitney Jr. – U.S. House Majority Leader Steny Hamilton Hoyer – Michael Phelps – Linus Carl Pauling – Aristotle – Nicolas Copernicus – Sir Isaac Newton – Mahatma Gandhi – Leonardo da Vinci – Confucius – Jesus of Nazareth – Queen Elizabeth I – Jean-Jacques Rousseau – William Blackstone – Annie Mansfield Sullivan – Alexander Fleming – Nelson Mandela – Eartha Kitt – Catherine the Great of Russia – Henry Hazlitt – Robert Frost – Langston Hughes – Alexandre Dumas – Les Brown – Gen. Alexander Haig – Mario Capecchi – Alabama Governor Bibb Graves – New York Governor Al Smith – Tennessee Governor Sam Houston – Clarence Ellis – Bernie Mac – Indiana Supreme Court Justice William Allen Woods – U.S. Senator Al Sharpton – U.S. Senator Senator Robert C. "Bob" Smith – U.S. Senator John Ensign – U.S. Senator Bella Abzug – U.S. Senator William Warren "Bill" Bradley – U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan – Queen Victoria of Britain – Alan Greenspan – Plato – Alessandro Volta – Jim Clark – Ada Lovelace – Jane Austen – George Eastman – Arne Wilhelm Kaurin Tiselius – Rosa Parks – Mother Theresa – Roy Wilson Howard – Washington State Senator Paull Shin – Johann Sebastian Bach – Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz – Lance Armstrong – John Lennon – Hans Christian Andersen – Billy Martin – Edward Jenner – George Hitchings – Ringo Starr – Giacomo Puccini – Joseph John ("J.J.") Thomson – Bertrand Russell – Hermann Rorschach – Herman Melville – Ivo Andric’ – John Keats – Albert Camus – Marian Anderson – Ernst B. Chain – Garry Kasparov – Johannes Kepler – Sylvia Plath – Leo Tolstoy – Peyton Rous – Herbert C. Brown – Benjamin Carson – Jean-Paul Sartre – Raphael – David Hume – Hannah Arendt – Erik Erikson – Ralph Waldo Emerson – Stephen Crane – Lord Byron – Geraldine Ferraro – Truman Capote – Friedrich Nietzsche – Agatha Christie – William Wordsworth – Max Weber – Cleopatra – Jesse Jackson – Audie Murphy – Gustav Theodor Fechner – Edgar Allen Poe – Alam J. Heeger – Emile Zola – Elias Canetti – William Smith – Colonel Sanders – Oona O’Neil Chaplin – Gerald Bull – Willa Cather – Ritchie Valens – Daniel Dennett – Cass Gilbert – Mary Leakey – Harry Martinsson – Joseph Stalin – Charlie Chaplin – Nelly Bly – Henry Morton Stanley – Mike Tyson – Max Born – Sarah Breedlove – Frederick Froebel – Geoffrey Burnstock – William Week Kaufman – Judith Kaur – Robert Boyle – Theodore Grutthuss – Steve Allen – Mary Higgins Clark – Louis Armstrong – Warren Hastings – Allan Pinkerton – Billie Holiday – Hank Williams – Malcolm X – Carol Burnett – Thomas Green Clemson – John Irving – J.R.R. Tolkien – Charles Bronson – Albert Ellis – Tom Blake – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Gene Simmons – Paulette Goddard – Gene Hackman – Sir Arthur Lewis – Robert Hooke – James Byron Dean – Halle Berry – Benjamin Bratt – Eddie Murphy – Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg – Charles Baudelaire – Deborah Sampson – Karl Landsteiner – Ralph Ellison – California Supreme Court Justice Rose Bird – Eric Clapton – Eamon de Valera – William Reddington Hewlett – J. Marvin Herndon – Mother Angelica – Karl Rove – Lauren Bacall – Nicolas Sarkozy – Antonin Careme – Melissa Gilbert – Julius Caesar – Gerhard Herzberg – Ella Fitzgerald – Muhammed – Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick – John Leonard – Andre Gide – Dorothea Lange – Dorothy Dandridge – F. Whitten Peters – Henry Talbot – Sigrid Undset, – Arthur C. Clarke – Jim Rogan – Frederick W. Alt – Emil J. Freireich – Willie Nelson – Charlotte Perkins Gilman – Victor – George Burns – Herbert – Bessie Coleman – Dorothy Andersen – Chiang Kai-shek – Videl Sassoon – Bill Weir – k.d. Lang – Coco Chanel – Quentin Tarantino – Anderson Hayes Cooper – James Brown – Kenneth Grahame – Hunter "Patch" Adams – Jack Nicholson – Rodney Dangerfield – Roald Dahl – Lucy Montgomery – William Lloyd Garrison – Douglas Fairbanks – David Harker – Robert Fulton – Irving Berlin – Jonathan Swift – Peggy Drexler – Art Buchwald – Carolyn Jones – Sojourner Truth – Judge Sonya Sotomayor – Doris Roberts – Barry Lopez – Loretta Young – Marilyn Monroe – Barbara Stanwick – Steve McQueen – Cher – Pierce Brosnan – Wayne Dyer – Francis Alice Kellor – Sophia Loren – Eminem – George Carolin – Joe Hill – Stephen King – Franco Modigliani – Derek Walcott – Sir Charles Bell – Whoopi Goldberg – Charles Thomson Rees Wilson – Richard Wright – Percy Spencer – Ward Connerly – Fatty Arbuckle – Katherine Burr Blodgett – Cuba Gooding – Dorothea Lange – Frances Kellor – Gloria Steinem – Gloria Gaynor – Jon Stewart – Harold Clayton Urey – Bette Davis – J. R. Moehringer – Audrey Hepburn – Tom Cruise – Horacio Quiroga – Tina Turner – Kate Hayes – Bill Cosby – Barry White – Susanna Harding – Jodie Foster – Patsy Cline – Ralph Bunche – Ed Bradley – Tom Monaghan – Rickey Henderson – Sonia Sotomayor…




"…Just add Dad, the magic ingredient. It’s hard to know where wishful thinking becomes deliberate deception. But this argument, advanced by the fathers’ rights movement, is like saying that, since Mercedes Benz owners make more money than people who drive Hyundais, you will become wealthy if you buy a Mercedes…" Mike Peterson

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