Barack Obama father of the year
Staff Writer
2008-12-29
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In recognition for his steadfast support of strengthening fatherhood and families, The Fatherhood Educational Institute (FEI) announces Barack Obama as the 2009 Father of the Year.
By re-introducing the Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act, Barack Obama exemplifies his status as a champion of fatherhood and male involvement.
"I think we got to do a real good job trying to reintroduce males who have been involved in the criminal justice system as ex-offenders -- giving them the opportunity so that they are able to support their families, find work, get on the right path -- but ultimately there's a lot of personal responsibility that's involved in this. And one of the things I want to do as president is to use the bully pulpit to say to men, You have to get involved in your child's life. It will make a difference not only in their lives but in yours," Obama said.
"As the father of two children, Obama realizes the significant importance that fathers have in the lives of children and FEI is honored to name the President-elect as Father of the Year," said Jeffery Leving, President Emeritus of FEI. "We also thank Barack Obama for sharing his thoughts on his Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act on my radio show."
Although Obama is named in many other sources as a great father, some say he has failed to address non custodial parents rights in the child support system. Most systems in the United State have legislation that are harvest laws and not protect laws. Harvest laws only focus on the collection side of the child support system and not the accountability side of the collectors.
For example, if the collection departments of the child support system makes mistakes which could cause some type of hardship on the non custodial parent such as jail, tax collection, bad credit report and other actions, their are no laws or monitoring efforts by the federal government or state government to correct the problems that the state system caused due to their errors.