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Example sentences for: fatherless

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The women DeParle dwells on are poster children for irresponsibility as a lifestyle: At every turn there are unexpected pregnancies, out of wedlock fatherless children, and abusive-cum-substance-abusive-cum-mooching boyfriends.
Our compassion must extend to the poor and to the fatherless.
Eventually, communities of fatherless welfare families will become communities of intact, working families.
"What tedious work it is," confessed a spinster aunt tending to her fatherless nieces and nephews in 1860.
Poor and fatherless, he grew up in 1920s Birmingham, one of the most segregated cities in the country.