What Is Written In Obama’s Father’s Day Essay?

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Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 16:03

Do you want to know what is written in US President Barack Obama's Father's Day essay? It reveals his prime aim in life, which is none other than becoming a good father. He has written in the write-up that he observes Father's Day not just as a dad grateful for his two precious daughters, but also as a son who grew up without a father in his life.

Obama is the son of a father from Kenya and a mother from Kansas. The President apparently knows first-hand the pain of paternal abandonment because he was raised by his mother and maternal grandparents. His father is now dead.

Obama came to understand the importance of fatherhood both in his life and in others' lives through the parental absence. Obama feels that no government can fill the hole that a father makes, when he leaves his responsibility to the children. Even though the government can provide good jobs, good schools and safe streets for kids, it can never be enough to fully make up the difference that a father leaves behind.

On the Father's day Obama urges the fathers to be accountable for raising and caring for their children. He wants them to realize that 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. He even admits being an "imperfect father" who has made mistakes and allowed the demands of work to interfere with his paternal duties, citing the recent campaign trial as the prime example.

On the father's day Obama is planning to fulfill his promise to Malia when she was bor. He will pledge that if he becomes anything in life that would be becoming a good father.

The essay will be published by Parade magazine on Sunday.