households as jared who drew his pistol on gabby giffords. it s more complicated than just add dad. to the extent fatherlessness is the problem, there s little the president can or should do to create a solution. all of us watching that speech felt genuine empathy for the very human moment the president shared, on friday, about his own fatherlessness. while the president does have a powerful bully pulpit, president obama cannot make men marry the mother of their children. he doesn t have the power to make men be responsible parents and by the way, we shouldn t want him to. just imagine all the implications of giving the state how to choose to con trux or families. we don t have to imagine. we know what happens. for example, based on the track record of the well means