In a February visit to his hometown, President Obama addressed the rising violence. Obama said absent fathers and broken marriages are among the contributing factors in cases of youth poverty, violence and crime. He said one of the solutions is strengthening parental role models.



"There's no more important ingredient for success, nothing that would be more important for us reducing violence than strong, stable families, which means we should do more to promote marriage and encourage fatherhood," Obama said.



So now the president has spoken...Let us stop criminalizing good decent men, whose only crime is to be poor and have married a woman that had no intention of staying for the long haul...So many men would give their eye teeth to be in their children's lives, helping raise them, teaching them right from wrong...But due to our Feminist attitude that only MOM is entitled to the children and our gov't rewarding such behavior everyday in our Family courts, we have a nation of people that are only concerned about "Me", give no thought what so ever to the consequences of their actions.



The time to put Dad back in the family is long past due, and if you don't take a stand against the problem, then you are part of the problem...CHILDREN NEED THEIR FATHERS... much more than they need anything else.

Children are not tools to be bargained with and the sooner America realizes, that they can no longer use children as a weapon to get back at the supposed wrong of the other parent, the sooner our nation will get back on track. A strong family background, with good moral charactor is what our nation needs. Too many valuable assets are being wasted on courts, lawyers, and counselors, that could be better spent on raising a child/children.

We have tried in the best interest of the child, and it is not working, as too many judges enter the courtroom with a built in bias of this is "my courtroom and I make the law", and even if you do have a good judge, no one follows up on visitation issues where the custodial parent, decides to totally ignore the court orders and feels as if they own the child.

Don't do this for me, sign this petition for your son, your daughter, your niece, your nephew, your mother, your father. Sign this petition for the betterment of America. It affects each and every one of us, in all walks of life.