F&F: President Obama Addresses Hyde Park Academy

Article here. All well and good but talk is cheap. As long as he supports and propagates a social and legal system that actively discourages men even from having kids much less wanting to marry their mothers, things will only go from bad to worse in this department. It's actions that count, not words. And so far, all he's provided is words, with actions that go in the opposite direction. Excerpt:

'President Barack Obama spoke before students and faculty of Hyde Park Academy, in the Woodlawn neighborhood of Chicago. Most assumed it would be another speech on gun violence.
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"As the son of a single mom who gave everything she had to raise me, with the help of my grandparents, I turned out okay," he said, calling single moms "heroic" and worthy of praise.

But he added, "At the same time, I wish I'd had a father who was around and involved."
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Young boys and young men, in particular, "don't see an example of fathers or grandfathers, uncles, who are in a position to support families, and be held up and respected," Obama continued. Yet the biggest factor in determining a child's success — and preventing a child from sliding into a life of crime — is having a "loving, supportive family," he said.'