【正文】 g these obligations is somehow soft – that we can39。to look at the world through their it39。s up to us to set these high that means meeting those expectations means setting examples of excellence in our own lives.[/color][color=ff6600]The second thing we need to do as fathers is pass along the va[/color][color=ff6600]lue of empathy to our sympathy, but empathy – the ability to stand in somebody else39。t ever let images on TV tell you what you are worth, because I expect you to dream without limit and reach for those 39。s up to us – as fathers and parents – to instill this ethic of excellence in our 39。t cut it 39。s all that pomp and circumstance and gowns and I think to myself, it39。s know that they will no longer just pete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the know the work and the studying and the level of education that requires.[/color][color=ff6600]You know, sometimes I39。ve got to spend more time with them, and help them with their homework, and replace the video game or the remote control with a book once in 39。t just sit in the house and watch ―SportsCenter‖ all weekend 39。s even better if you have a college 39。s great if you have a job。from the South Side or the wealthiest suburb.[/color][color=ff6600]The first is setting an example of excellence for our children – because if we want to set high expectations for them, we39。wishing that I could be home for my girls and my wife more than I am right say this knowing all of these things because even as we are imperfect, even as we face difficult circumstances, there are still certain lessons we must strive to live and learn as fathers – whether we are black or white。to play all the roles that both parents are supposed to I know the toll it took on I resolved many years ago that it was my obligation to break the cycle – that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father to my girls。t get these chances is no margin for error in their my own story is different in that way.[/color][color=ff6600]Still, I know the toll that being a single parent took on my mother – how she struggled at times to the pay bills。ve, but I got plenty of second even though we didn39。s what keeps the foundation of our country strong.[/color][color=ff6600]I know what it means to have an absent father, although my circumstances weren39。the mothers who drop them off at school, go to work, pick up them up in the afternoon, work another shift, get dinner, make lunches, pay the bills, fix the house, and all the other things it takes both parents to many of these women are doing a heroic job, but they need need another children need another 39。t have , we need more money for our schools, and more outstanding teachers in the classroom, and more afterschool programs for our , we need more jobs and more job training and more opportunity in our munities.[/color][color=ff6600]But we also need families to raise our need fathers to realize that responsibility does not end at need them to realize that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child – it39。ll admit that what too many fathers also are is missing – missing from too many lives and too many have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.[/color][color=ff6600]You and I know how true this is in the AfricanAmerican know that more than half of all black children live in singleparent households, a number that has doubled – doubled – since we were know the statistics – that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and mit crime。s Day with my girls, and it39。第一篇：奧巴馬在父親節(jié)講話 (原文及翻譯)奧巴馬在父親節(jié)講話 中英文對照稿[align=center][size=5][color=black]此中文翻譯稿轉(zhuǎn)自譯言[/color][/size][/align][align=center][size=5][color=ff0000][/color][/size][/align] [size=5][size=9pt][size=9pt]Good 39。s good to be home on this Father39。s an honor to spend some time with all of you today in the house of our Lord.[/size][/size] [size=9pt][size=9pt][/size][/size] [/size][size=9pt][size=9pt][color=ff6600][size=5][color=ff6600]Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that are teachers and are mentors and role are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it.[/color][color=ff6600]But if we are honest with ourselves, we39。nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or bee teenage parents the foundations of our munity are weaker because of it.[/color][color=ff6600]How many times in the last year has this city lost a child at the hands of another child? How many times have our hearts stopped in the middle of the night with the sound of a gunshot or a siren? How many teenagers have we seen hanging around on street corners when they should be sitting in a classroom? How many are sitting in prison when they should be working, or at least looking for a job? How many in this generation are we willing to lose to poverty or violence or addiction? How many? [/color][color=ff6600]Yes, we need more cops on the , we need fewer guns in the hands of people who shouldn39。s the courage to raise one.[/color][color=ff6600]We need to help all the mothers out there who are raising these kids by themselves。s what keeps their foundation 39。t as tough as they are for many young people though my father left us when I was two years old, and I only knew him from the letters he wrote and the stories that my family told, I was luckier than grew up in Hawaii, and had two wonderful grandparents from Kansas who poured everything they had into helping my mother raise my sister and me – who worked with her to teach us about love and respect and the obligations we have to one screwed up more often than I should39。t have a lot of money, sch