It's the Brian Lair show on WNYC. Welcome back everybody. I'm Matt Katz, reporter in the WNYC

newsroom filling in for Brian today. Now we'll take your calls in celebration of Father's Day, but we don't want

your stories about the easy parts of fatherhood. It's not hard to love or dote on your kids

when they bring home straight A's or hit a home run in Little League or strike out a batter

in an all-star game as my son did yesterday, by the way. Listeners, we want to know about the

times when your kids have tested your love,

especially in adulthood.

Has your child ever gotten into serious trouble or behaved in a way that deeply disappointed you?

How have you been able to support your child through a significant crisis?

Our number is 212-433 W-N-YC,

212-433-9692. Why? Talk about the hard parts during a time of celebration like Father's Day.

There's this one very high-profile father who's going through a bit of a rough time right now, President Joe Biden.

And by this point, we all know that his son, Hunter, has just been convicted on three felony charges related to a gun purchase in 2018.

This fact is surely devastating to President Biden, who's not only running for re-election in a race that's looking

tighter than ever, but also has experienced significant hardships, extraordinary hardships

in his family life. His first wife and daughter tragically passed away. His older son,

Bo, died young from cancer. And Hunter's public struggle with addiction has led him to this fate.

So looking beyond politics and policy, beyond red versus blue, beyond November,

President Biden's response to Hunter's conviction, at least from what we can see from a public

standpoint, has been pretty profound.

There's this image that I saw the other day of father and son embracing one another on the tarmac right after Hunter's conviction.

And Joe's eyes are closed. It looks like a quite tight embrace. And I was really struck by this image.

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