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Fathers without children

ELLIOT LIEBOW

In the springtime, on a Sunday afternoon, Richard’s four-year old son lay seriously ill in Ward E of Children’s Hospital. He and the other twelve children in the ward, almost all from low-income Negro families, were being visited by some twenty-five relatives and friends. Not a single man was among the visitors.


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