{"product_id":"whatever-happened-to-daddys-little-girl-the-impact-of-fatherlessness-on-black-women","title":"Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl?: The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat happens to a little girl who grows up without a father? Can she ever feel truly loved and fully alive? Does she ever healor is she doomed to live a wounded  fragmented life and to pass her wounds down to her own children? Fatherlessness afflicts nearly half the households in America  and it has reached epidemic proportions in the African-American community  with especially devastating consequences for black women. In this powerful  searingly intimate book  accomplished journalist  poet  and fiction writer Jonetta Rose Barras breaks the code of silence and gives voice to the experiences of Americas fatherless womenstarting with herself.  \"We are legionsa choir of woundedlisten to the dirge we sing \" writes Barras of the millions of black women like her who lost  either through abandonment  rejection  poverty  or death  the men who gave them life. A father is the first man in a girls lifethe first man to look in her eyes  protect her  care for her  love her unconditionally. Fathers fashion their daughters as expertly and as powerfully as they do their sons. When a girl loses this man  she grows up with an ache that nothing else can soothe. Psychologists have found that fatherless daughters are far more likely to suffer from debilitating rage  depression  abuse  and addictions; they tend to seek \"sexual healing\" through promiscuity or anti-intimate behavior and end up fearing or despising the men whose love they crave.  Barras knows from personal experience the traps and the fury of being a black fatherless daughter  and she makes her own life story the heart and soul of her book  alternating chapters of spellbinding memoir with the stories she has gathered from women all over the country.  Passionate and shockingly frank  Whatever Happened to Daddys Little Girl is the first book to explore the plight of Americas fatherless daughters from the unique perspective of the African-American community. Like Hope Edelmans New York Times bestseller Motherless Daughters  this brilliant volume gives all fatherless daughters the knowledge that they are not alone and the courage to overcome the hidden pain they have suffered for so long.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946481479733,"sku":"ByrdShop_0345422465","price":28.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780345422460.jpg?v=1769951880","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/whatever-happened-to-daddys-little-girl-the-impact-of-fatherlessness-on-black-women","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}