Fatherless Women: What Every Daughter Needs from a Father

by Donna Griffin

"Fatherless Women" is a book that is long overdue. When we think of the absent father, most often we reflect on the pain of the male child only. The author helps us to understand how important the father is to the female child also. A child suffers physically and emotionally when the father is absent. The author examines the effects absent fathers have on the lives of their daughters - effects which impact on their roles as children, women, mothers, and wives. If you look at almost any problem bedeviling our society, you will find the plague of fatherlessness as its root. Our society, for many reasons, is filled with woes, but one of the greatest sorrows is fatherless women. To not know who our father is, or what he stands for, leaves a large void - a void the must be filled. Women soar much higher and more confidently when they know daddy is there and can break their fall. The author provides methods to help women break through issues restricting their spiritual and physical growth, and a 30-day plan for creating a new you. This book, "Fatherless Women", will help hurting women to overcome and rejoice, no matter what their deficits were.

108 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

Reviews

[Marina · Rating 3 out of 5]

Whether your father was an alcoholic or workaholic or just a loving, caring father, this book will enlighten you as to how women are influenced by the presence (or lack thereof) of the male role model of the family.

[Neardey Trinh · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this book as a gift about a month after my dad passed away. My bf then (husband now) actually thought it was too soon for me to read this book and sort of tried to put it away. But I found the book to actually be very helpful in dealing with my fathers death. We all may face different situations and what this book does is introduce us to those real life exeriences of those that have gone through something similiar to what we may be dealing with. It allowed me to understand that some of the emotions that I was feeling or just by reading it... it brought up emotions that I didn't even know existed and in sense, it allowed me to release all that energy and heal. Of course--there is no specific way to deal w/ death, especially a parent or someone that was so close to you, but sometimes, it can ease the pain for a moment. There is no better remedy then time. But the book was intriguing.