Barack Obama is a doting father who says that one of the greatest pleasures of his presidency is eating dinner with his daughters on the nights when he is in town.
Some of the nation's Founding Fathers were not so lucky. Doting dads though they were, patriotic service forced them to live apart from their families for years at a time. Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the three Founders who spent the most time abroad, missed ...
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Informative article. I didn't realise our founding fathers were burdened with their childen whilst on international duty. However, they demonstrated a certain hardness about their education. Something contemporary parents could learn from.
This is the review of someon who never was a father, who never had children, who never held a baby, and who doesn't understand all the attention given to children..
Not particularly interesting unless you have a fascination with former US presidents personal lives. Obama himself is significant because even before he was chosen as the Democraft Presidential nominee he made comments about fatherhood that made the news in countries as distant as Spain, as I noted in my blog, (see link.)
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