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Welcome to the OG therapy.

All right.

I got another episode of OG therapy for you.

And again, this is another question from real life teenager.

And this question, I actually talked about this recently.

And I talked about it one of my podcasts recently about the importance of having a father figure in the home. Now, the

question came through is, what are some good ways to deal with not having a father at home?

Now, if you guys didn't listen to one of my earlier episodes, I think it was a week ago, I believe. I talked about how

a father in the home, and this is some, I don't, maybe I shouldn't say cool research,

but it's some research that I heard recently. It's been going around the internet for a while,

so maybe you even heard about it. But they said, if they said 80% of the people incarcerated in the federal prison

system did not have a father in the home or did not have a father figure present while they're

growing up. That's a pretty big statistic. And it makes me think like, man, like fathers might be

kind of important in the home. Now, how do you deal with not be kind of important in the home now how do you deal with

not having a father figure in the home i had a father in the home it was my adopted grandfather

if i'm being totally honest i didn't have a real close relationship with him until i was

late 20s.

I think he was about 28, 29 years old when I started confide in him and started talking him about real deep personal things.

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