During a Father's Day speech in Chicago, Barack Obama -- whose own dad left his family when he was 2 years old -- admonished fathers to be there for their own children and to actively raise them.
Boiling the speech down to its very essence: Dads matter.
An excerpt:
"We need families to raise our children. We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn't just end at conception. That doesn't make you a father. What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child. Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child, that makes you a father."
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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And, frankly, he's the only one who could make these comments these days.
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