Fatherless America? Yes indeed!

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 fatherlessness absent fathers

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: Aristotle Jurist William Blackstone Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, Mother Theresa Julius Caesar Catherine the Great of Russia Cleopatra Confucius Nicolas Copernicus Queen Elizabeth I – also 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 Read more at angelzfury.wordpress.com

 

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