Cameron and Obama weigh in on black fathers

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David Cameron has called on absent black fathers to take more responsibility for their children.

He spoke out in praise of US presidential candidate Barack Obama's warning that too many African Americans have abandoned their children.

Mr Cameron called for a 'responsibility revolution' to change patterns of behaviour. He agreed with Mr Obama, who spoke only hours earlier, that government and business alone couldn’t be blamed for problems in black neighbourhoods. The Tory leader commended Mr Obama's 'bravery' and said that many black church leaders had expressed the same anxiety to him. Referring to Mr Obama's speech, in which he warned that absent black fathers were behaving like teenagers and shirking their responsibilities, Mr Cameron said: 'I think he's absolutely right.

Mr Obama has said that parents need to teach ‘our sons to treat women with respect and to realise responsibility does not end at conception’. He added ‘That what makes a man a man is not the ability to have a child but to raise one.’

Click on the video to listen to Obama's speech in full.

Read the report in the Daily Mail.

Or listen to Allan Mwangi from DadTalk on Premier Radio.