Politics. On Point.

With this Sunday being Father's Day, the Administration is getting involved with a message about responsible fatherhood. “Father’s Day reminds us parents that we have no more solemn obligation than to care for our children.  But far too many young people in America grow up without their dads, and our families and communities are challenged as a result,” said President Obama.  “Through my administration’s fatherhood initiative and the year of Strong Fathers, Strong Families, we’re taking steps to offer men who want to be good fathers a little extra help, while working with partners around the country to encourage personal responsibility and help fathers connect with kids.” The administration is hosting military fathers and their children at the White House today for a picnic, along with a screening of Disney's movie, Cars 2. Over the past two years, the President’s Fatherhood and Mentoring Initiative has helped fathers nation-wide engage with their families by ...

President Obama with daughter, Sasha, getting ice cream Saturday at The Dairy Godmother . While the President was taking care of his own Father's Day responsibilities that included taking the First Daughters out for an ice cream treat this past Saturday, the president also shared what it means to be a father with young men and father's today at The Arc . In his address President Obama said that fathers are "our mentors, our role models who show us by the example they set the kind of people they want us to become." It is fitting for Obama to make these remarks in a community that needs the mentoring and leadership of men (and fathers) more than ever.   Too many of our nation's children, especially in urban communities, are without fathers. "But we also know that what too many fathers missing from too many homes, missing from too many lives. We know that when fathers abandon their responsibilities, there’s harm done to those kids. We know that chil...