President Barack Obama says kids need quality time, structure and unconditional love from their parents, calling being a dad sometimes his hardest job — but also the most rewarding.Just ahead of Father's Day, the president devoted his regular Saturday radio and Internet address to fatherhood, talking about growing up without a dad, his own failings as a father and the values he hopes to teach his daughters Malia, 12, and Sasha, 10. He described the responsibilities that all fathers have to their children and said his administration is trying to help during tough economic times and long deployments for U.S. troops.
Obama, who was raised largely by his grandparents in Hawaii after his father left when he was very young, also talked about what he wishes he'd done differently."I felt his absence. And I wonder what my life would have been like had he been a greater presence," the president said.
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