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Tom Carper: “Every child deserves not just one loving, nurturing, caring parent but two. To the extent that we as a society can…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2001
Every child deserves not just one loving, nurturing, caring parent but two. To the extent that we as a society can encourage men to live up to the responsibilities of the children they father and bring into this world, those children will be better for it and so will our country.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Discussing the importance of fatherhood and parental roles.

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