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Dayo, I disagree that mothers—even single mothers—should be honored on
Father’s Day. If we systematically turn Father’s Day into yet another
celebration of all of the child-rearing and housekeeping that female
heads of household take care of, I worry that will inadvertently
suggest that there isn’t enough child-rearing and housekeeping to
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When word broke that Barack Obama is pausing his busy schedule of revamping health care and heeding climate science and not intervening in the electoral process of a sovereign nation in order to spend three hours preaching "responsible fatherhood"—why, I nearly did a jig. The celebrity-stuffed event in the East Room sheds light on a little-reported obsession of the president whose own father abandoned him when he was barely 2 years old... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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