Furthermore, families often helped children in the grieving process by restructuring their daily routines to accommodate the absence of their fathers. As William Tuttle points out in Daddy's Gone to War, psychologists during World War II commonly advised mothers assisting grieving children that 'if you can take it, your children can' (Tuttle p. With little assistance from public organizations, children's ability to cope with a father's death depended greatly on family response. Children's ability to cope with their father's death varied considerably: some experienced a short-term loss of security whereas others endured long-term psychological disorders. Many young children had no recollection of their fathers and thus depended on family stories, mementos, pictures, and letters to provide a link that memory could not. In World War II alone, government records show that 183,000 children lost their fathers during their service overseas. The children of soldiers killed in battle also experienced difficult periods of adjustment. In extreme cases, widows overwhelmed with grief succumbed to alcoholism, suffered severe bouts of depression, or committed suicide. Those with children found that remarriage also eased the financial and emotional strains associated with single parenthood. Others remarried soon after their husbands' deaths in order to bring some sense of normalcy to their lives. Many sought comfort by moving in with family members. Widows blunted the emotional hardship in a variety of ways. There were ways, however, in which these victims of war coped with their unique situation through self-determination, aid from family, and government assistance.

War orphans found their situation equally difficult as they faced growing up without their fathers.

Faced with rebuilding their lives alone, many wives and mothers confronted great emotional and financial hardship. On the Line and page breaks tab, select Widow/Orphan control.America's involvement in the Spanish-American War, World War I, and World War II left a population of widows and orphans in its wake. On the context menu, select Styles > Apply Styles. Select a paragraph formatted with Normal style. Insert a nonbreaking space by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Space. Keep the last word of a paragraph with the word that precedes it

Insert a nonbreaking hyphen by pressing Ctrl+Shift+_. Keep a hyphenated word from breaking at the end of a line In Word and PowerPoint, you can manage these situations without using manual line breaks.

Widows, which occur when the last line of a paragraph contains only one word or appears alone on the next page or column Orphans, which occur when the first line of a paragraph appears by itself at the bottom of a page or column Left-aligned text has an even left margin and an erratic (ragged) right margin.

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