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 ...

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 ...

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

Barack and Michelle’s children, Sasha and Malia, grew up in the spotlight after their father was elected in 2008. Malia was ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

"That's why I try to be, for Michelle and my girls, what my father was not for my mother and me," he said Saturday. President Obama spoke openly about his father’s absence in his life growing up ...