Successful Children Who Lost A Parent ? Why Are There So Many Of Them?

Writer Malcolm Gladwell calls them "eminent orphans" ? an intriguingly large number of successful politicians, statesmen, poets, scientists who lost a parent when they were young. Why the pattern? Is it just coincidence? Or is it something more?

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/10/15/234737083/successful-children-who-lost-a-parent-why-are-there-so-many-of-them?ft=1&f=1007

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