This is not just a mom's child care issue or a dad's elderly care issue.
Mr. GLEN LAVY (Senior Counsel, Alliance Defense Fund): When children are raised without a mom or a dad, they are missing something.
Our hearts are broken when we see the scenes of little children struggling without a mom or a dad, or the bodies in the streets or the physical damage of the earthquake.
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Think of all who have come home and settled on in a quiet life of service -- as a doctor or a police officer, an engineer or an entrepreneur, as a mom or a dad -- and in the process, changed countless lives.
Taking out a loan, or a line of credit, or a home equity loan, or even a loan from your dad.
Now, I'm like a NASCAR dad, or a soccer mom, or some kind of voter group.
But the reality is that their average viewer is more likely to be a hard-working Dad or even a retiree.
If you have a connection through your mom or dad, that can yield a fruitful way to approach someone.
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Behind every American in uniform stands a wife, a husband, a mom, a dad, a son or a daughter, a sister or brother.
Whether you're a military dad returning from deployment or a father doing his best to make ends meet for his family in a tough economy, being a parent isn't easy.
As a worker and as a mom or dad, you are making your presence felt in both arenas.
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No warning, no thinking that this might be emotional for a mother or dad to get through just an eruption from deep within me where my body literally shook.
Ms. MARINO: I can't begin to tell you, you know, how it feels to constantly wonder, you know, is my husband coming home, you know, are my kids going to have a dad or, you know, is he going to come home OK. And, you know, they always come home different.
"This wasn't just that they had created a bumbling dad character or that sort of thing or just excluding dad, " like so many other TV portrayals, he said.
Think of him every time you catch a football, hit a baseball or hug your mom and dad.
Many kids dread getting a friend request from Mom or Dad.
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In addition to serving as a reminder of the older generation's mortality, a conversation about inheritance or Mom and Dad running out of money can provoke anxiety in parents.
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Help Mom or Dad remember that they taught you a basic value: to do what you thought was best for yourself.
Make today the day you pick up the phone and set a time to talk with Mom or Dad about what the future may hold.
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We ourselves did not have a car until I was ten, Dad would travel the ten miles to work on a scooter or bus in the icy weather.
Paul - It might be a long ways away from a real recording setup or the snazzy acoustics of a real studio, but the Line6 Toneport should get my dad a good start on those song recordings he's always been threatening to make.
Much depends on whether Dad is having a good day or a bad day.
But she's still a lot worldlier than her boyfriend or the adoptive dad, who are, respectively, just leaving adolescence and desperately clinging to its memory.
When the means of production were expensive and the barriers to entry high, having a dad who owned a newspaper chain or a billboard company was a pretty good way to get a running start in the media business.
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"In fact, my dad was given a choice: boy or girl, " Moreno said.
All too often, that cosigner is mom or dad, fast approaching retirement age and with a plethora of their own financial obligations.
Dad can always use a new shirt or tie and Mom can never have too many pairs of shoes or pocketbooks.
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We wonder as well, with our tongues halfway in our cheeks, whether seventeen-year-olds will want to spend four years, or three, or even two living with mom and dad and staring at a computer screen.
Tonight I ask Congress and the American people to focus the spirit of service and the resources of government on the needs of some of our most vulnerable citizens: boys and girls trying to grow up without guidance and attention, and children who have to go through a prison gate to be hugged by their mom or dad.
Dad may have to bend to a night of burgers or red sauce on spaghetti.
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