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Obama: Absent Dad Taught Me Value of Fatherhood

President's Father's Day essay urges father to 'step up' and take responsibility

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 19, 2009 6:18 AM CDT

(Newser) – President Obama came to realize the value of fatherhood through its absence in his own life as a boy, he writes in an essay published in Parade for Father's Day. "The hole a man leaves when he abandons his responsibility to his children is...   Read full story »

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