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.

Former President Obama is a devoted dad, but says his life has been shaped by the absence of his own father. Obama and rock icon Bruce Springsteen have partnered for the new Spotify podcast ...

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, whose Kenyan father left his family when the future US president was 2 years old, ... Obama says still wonders about his absent father (Agencies) Updated: 2011-06-20 10:26.

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 ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama donned his father-in-chief hat Friday, devoting much of his afternoon to emphasizing the importance of mentors and father figures for young people and to prodding ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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.