Sat Jun 18, 9:10 am ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – 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.
"I felt his absence. And I wonder what my life would have been like had he been a greater presence," Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address a day before Father's Day in the United States.
The president said that being a father was "sometimes my hardest, but always my most rewarding job," and called on other fathers to make spending time with their kids a priority even when times are tough.
"And life is tough for a lot of Americans today. More and more kids grow up without a father figure. Others miss a father who's away serving his country in uniform. And even for those dads who are present in their children's lives, the recession has taken a harsh toll," he said.
Obama described a set of incentives by his administration on the website Fatherhood.gov to help fathers find fun things to do with their children and to connect better with them.
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