Fatherhood

“In many ways, I came to understand the importance of

fatherhood through its absence-both in my life and in the

lives of others. I came to understand that the hole a man

leaves when he abandons his responsibility to his children

is one that no government can fill. We can do everything

possible to provide good jobs and good schools and safe

streets for our kids, but it will never be enough to fully make

up the difference. That is why we need fathers to step up, to

realize that their job does not end at conception; that what

makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the

courage to raise one.”

President Barack Obama