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The Dr. Laura Podcast

Addressing Bad Dads

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🗓️ 1 July 2026

⏱️ 9 minutes

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"Addressing Bad Dads" - Listen to my Morning Monologue: I’m sharing my take on pressing issues, enlightening research on human behavior, answering questions I get by email, and my favorite, most instructive interactions with callers. Everything you’ll hear is designed to help you become a better spouse, parent, family member, co-worker, friend, and human being. It’s the free therapy you need! • Got a dilemma? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com - Listen to The Dr. Laura Program daily on SiriusXM Triumph 123.

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at Dr.ora.com. So here's a quickie. And I thought this was interesting, so worth starting the

0:33.2

program with it. Why don't you address more circumstances where the father leaves the family and the mother

0:41.0

has no choice but to support the kids? What support can you offer besides jobs and careers are bad? Please answer this.

0:52.6

This is an angry woman.

0:54.8

Okay.

0:56.3

Good question.

0:59.8

First off, every now and then we have a tragedy where some husband dash father, he's an idiot, self-centered, creep, and abandons his wife and kids. That happens.

1:18.1

I would say it probably happens less likely when we do our due diligence before we get married. Most of you don't bother to do much of any

1:33.5

due diligence because you're so excited and happy to have a wedding and a long gown and a lot of food

1:39.2

and presence. And I'll just ignore these things. That's what I hear from women every day.

1:45.4

I'll just ignore these, turns out to be profound things,

1:48.2

because I so want the wedding, and I so want this to be okay,

1:52.6

that I don't know, I'll just jump off the cliff and see how it goes.

1:59.5

Okay, what is due diligence? It's taking two years at any age. Let me throw that in now.

2:08.3

It's taking two years at any age to go through the seasons twice. Because in that two years, and this is only part A, there's a part

2:21.3

B. And in this two years, it's your obligation to yourself unless you sterilize yourself and then

2:30.0

kids will not be impacted, in which case, I don't care.

2:39.0

What adults want to do that's silly to mess up their lives, irrelevant.

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