noun
- the state or condition of being without a father, either through death, absence, or abandonment
Usage: often used in sociological or personal contexts
Examples
- The child struggled with the fatherlessness that defined much of his early life.
- Fatherlessness can have lasting emotional effects on young people.
- She wrote about her experience of fatherlessness in her memoir.
- The social worker addressed the impact of fatherlessness on the community.
- Many children in the program dealt with fatherlessness and other family challenges.