Barack Obama has named one task that could pose quite a challenge for him due to him growing up without a dad.During his ...

Barack Obama said raising a son would have been harder due to his own lack of a father figure and said he might have been ...

Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., divorced his mother Stanley Ann Dunham only a few years after the president's birth and was largely absent from his life before he died in a drunk driving ...

WASHINGTON — On Father’s Day, President Barack Obama could be heard talking about the “myth” of a missing father with which he was raised, a story told, for his benefit, by a loving mother.

Both of them shared that their childhoods were shaped by absent fathers. Obama, the son of Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham, previously wrote about his father in his 2004 memoir ...

In the essay titled, "We Need Fathers To Step Up," and to be published Sunday, President Obama acknowledges the impact of the absence of his own father and reflects on mistakes he has made as a ...

Barack and Michelle’s children, Sasha and Malia, grew up in the spotlight after their father was elected in 2008. Malia was ...

Barack Obama, whose Kenyan father left his family when the future U.S. president was 2 years old, said Saturday he still thinks about how things would have worked out had his dad been there.

The subject is absent fathers. The implications for black America are dire. The fact is that "there are a lot of men out there who need to stop acting like boys; who need to realize that ...

"That's why I try to be, for Michelle and my girls, what my father was not for my mother and me," he said Saturday. President Obama spoke openly about his father’s absence in his life growing up ...