Saturday, May 2, 2015

Refelection Paper Nine- Barack Obama's Speech on Fathers Day

“But we also need families to raise our children. We need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at conception. We need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – it’s the courage to raise one.

Obama , through out this speech talks about the struggles kids go through having a single parents, especially a father .How it affects things such as crime rate, and learning capabilities, as well as the emotional toll it takes on a family. This particular passage is the definition of a true father. Many men (and women) out there believe that if they simply conceive a child they are in fact a parent, when this is false. Obama states that if you cannot raise the child you conceive , you are nothing but a boy, 


I think this particular passage and speech was important because Obama talked about what most governments don’t want to talk about , single parents. Although I have the blessing of having my children's father in my life, many do not. The single parent homes affect so much; crime rates, welfare, the need for scholarships. Single family homes have a huge impact on the budget. Yet there are so many of them, they are affected  children, in turn society, and our nation as a whole.



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