title: Choosing Fatherhood: America&rsquo;s Second Chance
author: Lewis Kostiner
description: <i>Choosing Fatherhood: America's Second Chance</i> with photos by Lewis Kostiner is a beautiful, large format, full color book of poignant photographs and essays about fatherhood in America. Since World War II the number of fatherless children in the United States has risen from 11 percent to over one third, and it is wreeking havoc and grief in almost every sector of this country. According to the heart-stopping essays by several renowned authors, the absence of fathers in the home is the root cause of the huge increase of poverty, drop-out rates of schools, incarceration, behavioral problems, child abuse, and feelings of abandonment for more than 24 million children today. The book, presented by The National Fatherhood Initiative Organization, is a very important one, and its message offers ways to educate men about the responsibilities and delights and rewards of being present as their children grow up. Get this book for your library! (<i>Bonnie Neely, Amazon Top Reviewer</i>)<br /><br />Kostiner is a Chicago-based photographer who became involved with the National Fatherhood Initiative, travelled to community-based NFI programs, and met with and photographed fathers and children. This volume presents his photos full page in an elegant volume (oversize: 10" x 11") with thorough narrative captioning. Also included are essays by journalist Juan Williams; the former president of NFI, Roland C. Warren; the retired curator of photography of the Art Institute of Chicago, David Travis; Shipra S. Parkih, a psychotherapist from Chicago); and Derrick M. Bryan (Sociology, Morehouse College). They write about the importance of fathers and fatherhood and doing it well and offer suggestions for readings and viewings. (<i>Book News, Inc.</i>)
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  THE PROPRIETOR’S DAUGHTER
  
  
  
  
  
  Lewis Orde
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  © Lewis Orde 1988
  
  
  Lewis Orde has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents
  Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in 1988 by Little Brown & Co.
  
  
  
  
  
  This edition published in 2018 by Endeavour Media Ltd.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  For Collie,
  
  
  who told me that an even-money winner
  
  
  is always better than a 50–1 loser.
  
  
  No sounder advice on life could any father give his son.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter One](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc510777757)
  
  
  [Chapter Two](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc510777758)
  
  
  [Chapter Three](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc510777759)
  
  
  [Chapter Four](part0000_split_007.html#_Toc510777760)
  
  
  [Chapter Five](part0000_split_008.html#_Toc510777761)
  
  
  [Chapter Six](part0000_split_009.html#_Toc510777762)
  
  
  [Chapter Seven](part0000_split_010.html#_Toc510777763)
  
  
  [Chapter Eigh