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Everybody Needs a Father's Touch
Why No One Outgrows the Need for a Father
This book is 100% completeLast updated on 2026-09-18
He didn't grow up with his father. But over the years, four different men, none of them related to him by blood, showed him what fatherhood could be. Every Child Needs a Father's Touch is Ojo Adewale Iyanda's honest, reflective account of presence, absence, forgiveness, and the surprising places a father's touch can still be found.
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Every Child Needs a Father's Touch is a short, reflective memoir about presence, absence, and the men who shape a life without ever being asked to.
At twenty one, Ojo Adewale Iyanda left his mother's house for the first time and moved in with a family he barely knew. He didn't know it then, but he was about to spend the next several years living under the roofs of different men, each one showing him a different picture of what fatherhood could look like: stability, knowledge, friendship, and gentle authority.
This book is not about his biological father. It is about the fathers who found him along the way, and the slow realization that no child, and no adult, ever truly outgrows the need for a father's touch.
Written first as a simple Father's Day reflection, it grew into something larger: an honest look at why fatherhood is so often invisible until its absence is felt, why forgiveness is necessary for healing, and why every generation depends on those willing to walk ahead of the next one.
Part memoir, part reflection, this is a book for anyone who grew up without a father's presence, anyone who had one and did not realize its weight, and anyone hoping to become the kind of father whose touch will shape another life for good.
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