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Welcome to Office Hours. I'm Georgia Howe with the Daily Wire.

Today, we sit down with radio host, author, and founder of Prager University, Dennis Prager.

Dennis' new Prager U video is titled, Are Fathers Necessary?

With so many people in the media and pop culture diminishing the necessity of fathers,

Dennis explores a few of the reasons why fathers may be a bit more necessary than you think.

Let's jump right in.

Dennis, nice to see you again. Wonderful to be with you. Thank you. It's very sad that we even have to discuss this. I know. It's crazy. It's crazy. That's exactly right. And what's kind of interesting,

for people who haven't seen it yet, in your video, you mentioned some stunning headlines,

and I want to read them for people who aren't realizing that there are crazy people out there

who are actually questioning, Our Father's Necessary. So in the Atlantic magazine, we have an essay titled,

Our Father's Necessary. A paternal contribution may not be as essential as we think. The New York

Times recently published a discussion of five intellectuals that's titled, What Are Fathers For?

And one of the contributors, Hannah Rosen, opened her response stating, I'm not sure whether a child needs a father.

And the Huffington Post published a piece titled, Fathers Are Not Needed.

And they've also published pieces in the past, for example, one titled, Three Reasons Why Father's Day Should Be Abolished.

So it was stunning to me that intelligent people would be arguing such a thing when we

have so much data. I mean, an overwhelming amount of data to suggest that fathers aren't necessary,

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