Raising Kids in a Shack-up Situation

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Katy gets schooled on how she and her boyfriend are hurting his sons and negatively impacting society by living together without any marital commitment. Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern Time on Sirius XM Triumph 11.
0:11.4	Katie, welcome to the program. Hi, Dr. Laura. Nice to meet you finally.
0:18.1	Thank you. How can I help? So we have had a dilemma with my stepchildren who don't live
0:29.9	with us. They are 20 and 24 and they have been living together. They have been renting
0:36.8	their fathers. Are they males? Males or females? Yes, two males,
0:42.4	brothers. And how long have you been married to their dad? We are not married, but we've
0:49.3	been together for six years. So we are shacking up, like you like to say. We had it been until the boys.
0:57.2	Because we have two adult boys who are seeing their dad shack up with some female. And that's
1:04.5	not how I think we all want males to look at females. We want to think about them learning how to make commitments.
1:12.9	So it's very sad.
1:15.4	You're impacting society, not just your own life.
1:19.5	And you're teaching two males what we in society don't want males to think.
1:25.2	Mm-hmm.
1:27.4	Understood. He had not moved in with me. males to think. Mm-hmm.
1:28.0	Understood.
1:34.3	He had not moved in with me until the boys were left in.
1:35.1	I don't care. I don't care.
1:35.8	None of that matters what you're going to say.
1:37.3	Timing doesn't matter.
1:39.0	Sure.
1:39.7	So what's the problem your shack up honey is having with his kids?
1:44.5	Is, so they...
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