homelessness and the epidemic level of it is really just collateral damage of our vision of life.

Hey guys, welcome to the Five Minute Fatherhood podcast. I'm your co-host, Jeff Bethke,

along with my friend and mentor, Jeremy Pryor. Join us Monday through Friday as we chat about

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What's up, guys? Welcome to another five-minute fatherhood. So Jeff and I love to look at some

current events through the lens of this whole sort of breakdown in the family being a team. And one of the ones that a lot of people are experiencing right now is the absolute explosion of homelessness happening. West Coast cities are being absolutely taken over by this problem.

Forbes just wrote an article that said,

the 44,000 people living eating, defecating in the streets of L.A.,

have brought rats and medieval diseases, including typhus.

Garbage is everywhere.

Experts fear the return of cholera and leprosy.

I mean, this is crazy.

In Western American cities where

we're seeing these horrible diseases creep back that we thought we got rid of it in the Middle Ages.

And so when you think about like what the, when the world's happening, why are there so many

more homeless people? And so many of them are men that are homeless. And so the Washington Times did some

research on this. And it was really fascinating what they said about the root cause of some of the

explosion here. He says, as I spend time meeting and speaking with these homeless fathers,

I was awakened to the fact that this tsunami of father absence is going to have a second wave.

Millions upon millions of fathers are going to grow old on the streets or in isolated homes

with no connection to their children and the social safety net that these connections provide.

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