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Barack Obama: We need families to raise our children. We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn't just end at conception.

On the recordJuly 9, 2008
We need families to raise our children. We need fathers to recognize that responsibility doesn't just end at conception.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Obama emphasizes the importance of family and fatherhood in a Father's Day speech.

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