The history and politics of fatherlessness / Robert L. Griswold -- Life without father / David Popenoe -- Dada-ism in the 1990s : getting past baby talk about fatherlessness / Judith Stacey -- Growing up without a father / Sara McLanahan -- "This river runs deep" : father myths and single mothers in poor America / Lisa Dodson -- The lost children / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- The absent Black father / Dorothy Roberts -- Father hunger / Maggie Gallagher -- Fatherhood and its discontents : men, patriarchy, and freedom / Drucilla Cornell.