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...and won't be the one stuck raising this kid once he bites it.
And, good job, dude. Way to just about guarantee your kid will lose a parent at a young age*, and/or have a sick parent for much of its life.
*But people who don't want kids are the "selfish" ones...
Why take it out on RD? Tons of men including not a small number of gays are becoming fathers at 50 or even 60 and above.
Straight guys perhaps can say their wife or gf "miscalculated", but gays and some single straight men are hiring surrogates. Anderson Cooper comes to mind; had both of his kids when he was past 50.
OTOH do understand what you're saying. It does seem selfish to bring a child into this world when parent knows full well statistically there are more days behind them than in front.
Many of these parents will be lucky if they are around when their kids graduate high school much less college.
I remember, a few years ago, De Niro was kind of hurting for money. (It's probably a relative thing) but I remember reading how his restaurant was struggling and his wife/ex wife was wanting big bucks for alimony.
He was using the "Poor me" card, saying how sad it was that he was an old man who still had to work to support himself.
Me personally, I think he's a good actor, but maybe not necessarily a good man. He's not someone I admire.
I remember, a few years ago, De Niro was kind of hurting for money. (It's probably a relative thing) but I remember reading how his restaurant was struggling and his wife/ex wife was wanting big bucks for alimony.
He was using the "Poor me" card, saying how sad it was that he was an old man who still had to work to support himself.
Me personally, I think he's a good actor, but maybe not necessarily a good man. He's not someone I admire.
De Niro is not alone among celebrities in terms of having kids out of wedlock with multiple women. Its not something to be celebrated, but Clint Eastwood, Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger, and a host of professional sports players have done the same thing. Some days, I'm grateful I don't have that kind of money. If this is the sort of the thing it leads too, I am happy to do without it.
De Niro is not alone among celebrities in terms of having kids out of wedlock with multiple women. Its not something to be celebrated, but Clint Eastwood, Mick Jagger, and a host of professional sports players have done the same thing. Some days, I'm grateful I don't have that kind of money. If this is the sort of the thing it leads too, I am happy to do without it.
I've never heard the others you mentioned crying 'poor'. That was my rub.
Having kids at 50 and at 80 is two different things. Robert DeNiro has nothing to cry about; it's his baby who's going to be crying growing up without a daddy and it's a dead cert that's how it's going to be. At 50, you have an expectation to live long enough to see your child graduate school and become some kind of functioning adult. And if you think a pile of money will replace a father to a young child, talk to some people who've lost a parent early in life. It's selfish BS is what it is, and RD should be old enough to know better.
No one knows how much time they have left on this earth, so I don't begrudge people having babies based on THAT criteria.
Policemen and fire fighters have lead dangerous lives, and yet they marry and have babies. Soldiers get married and have babies.
I'd rather see De Niro have a baby than a meth addict...and yet, meth addicts, gang bangers, drug runners, etc., seemingly have babies left and right, with no means to provide for them.
This child will be well provided for. I don't begrudge him the baby (who apparently gives him joy) in his old age.
Latin lover that he is, De Niro has had a more wives and girlfriends than Carter's has liver pills. Over course of those relationships he has sired several children and or adopted those of a wife from a previous relationship.
One must assume by now De Niro knows what to do if he didn't want any more children, but obviously that wasn't the case and no sooner than he took up with Ms. Chen he became a father yet *again*.
Anyone who lives until they are 80 is incredibly blessed. Mr. De Niro think may live until he is nearly 100, (that would make his young daughter 20), but not outside of an institution.
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