Former President Obama is a devoted dad, but says his life has been shaped by the absence of his own father. Obama and rock icon Bruce Springsteen have partnered for the new Spotify podcast ...

Barack Obama has named one task that could pose quite a challenge for him due to him growing up without a dad.During his ...

In the essay titled, "We Need Fathers To Step Up," and to be published Sunday, President Obama acknowledges the impact of the absence of his own father and reflects on mistakes he has made as a ...

Obama's father, Barack Obama Sr., divorced his mother Stanley Ann Dunham only a few years after the president's birth and was largely absent from his life before he died in a drunk driving ...

WASHINGTON — On Father’s Day, President Barack Obama could be heard talking about the “myth” of a missing father with which he was raised, a story told, for his benefit, by a loving mother.

Barack Obama said raising a son would have been harder due to his own lack of a father figure and said he might have been “more judgmental." ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama, who barely knew his own father, devoted his afternoon Friday to promoting the importance of being a good dad, saying he wanted to start a “national conversation ...

In an exclusive Father’s Day essay, the President of the United States – and elementary school basketball coach – Barack Obama tells PEOPLE readers how growing up without a dad made him want ...

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.

Both of them shared that their childhoods were shaped by absent fathers. Obama, the son of Barack Hussein Obama Sr. and Stanley Ann Dunham, previously wrote about his father in his 2004 memoir ...