Now a young adult, I still surround myself with as many different types of people as I can. Friends from all corners of the world, and I’m learning as much from them as possible. I like to think I’m moving against the grain when it comes to social issues like racism. Actively working towards a more accepting, supportive and encouraging world. “Variety is the spice of life,” my middle school English teacher use to say. We should embrace our differences. We cannot grow and learn otherwise.

Another lame excuse given for why fathers aren’t more involved. Since childhood, most women are saturated with textbooks, novels, newspapers, radio/tv programs, and other media that uses the pronouns “he” and “him” to describe the average student, reader, or audience member. The word “man” is frequently used as a generic term to describe the average human being. Does this mean girls and women shouldn’t bother to read a newspaper or learn any kind of academic subjects? No, and fathers aren’t excused from reading parenting books or discussing parenting issues just because they are geared toward mothers. There isn’t anything in those books that a man can’t learn unless it’s breastfeeding. OTOH, a man might learn how to support and encourage his partner’s breastfeeding decision a lot better if he did read that stuff. That said, I’ve seen parenting books specifically geared toward fathers. There isn’t any excuse for not being more involved. Period.

“Society has not yet fully embraced the concept equal parenting, in many ways dads are the forgotten parent, BUT with more Mums working and more dads falling out of work (GFC etc..) there is a trend for dads to be more involved.”

Another lame excuse. In most two earner families, moms have managed to work full-time jobs and remain fully involved parents for decades. That said, moms who are the sole breadwinners still do the lion’s share of the housework and childcare even when dad stays home (in most cases). Mothers remain involved parents whether they work full-time, part-time, or not at all. Fathers have no excuse, and those who use their employment to justify their lack of parental involvement have even less excuse.

And according to the father’s rights movement, ANYONE not raised by their BIOLOGICAL MOTHER AND FATHER in a married, two-parent family will amount to little. The fact that Obama even supports this group is an insult to a lot of different types of families.

And incidentally, Obama wasn’t raised by mom with help from her parents. He was raised by those parents, in a married and middle-class home, without which he probably would have amounted to little.

Barack Obama gives his mom and grandparents a figurative “slap in the face” by using his father’s last name, by writing a book about his dad, and by promoting this innane “fatherhood” garbage. He should be praising the wonderful upbringing he received by NOT having his abusing father around. Barack became the President of the United States, what more proof is needed that having a father around is NOT what determines if a person will grow up to be successful.

Barack should be promoting having children raised by the mom’s family along with help from her parents. It works well. Mothers should always be sole primary custodians, and all other people involved with her child should be at her discretion. If the mom finds out that the dad is abusive in any way, she should have the right to not have to ever put up with it again. Under these forced fatherhood programs, fathers are favored and very often children are taken away from their moms and given to abusive fathers. Fatherhood programs are misogynistic and demeaning to mothers. Mothers are not being allowed to raise their children without the father’s interference. It’s a nightmare for mothers and children to be forceably subjugated to having a “male guardian” and it reminds me of Saudi Arabia.

Demand the government stop wasting tax dollars on this misogyny.

And yet he came from a fatherless home to become (gasp) the first black president of this nation. What a failure! LMFAO.