Addressing Bad Dads
The Dr. Laura Podcast
Dr. Laura Schlessinger & SiriusXM
4.6 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2026
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:26.2 | 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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