Daddy Dearest

Some of my family (and a fair number of complete strangers) believe that I should marry the father of my baby. They say this without knowing anything about the father. There is this is still an assumption that regardless of the father's personality or the relationship between the two adults, in order for a child to be happy they must be raised in a married household. I'm a very happy successful adult whose parents did not live together and I dread the thought of what it would have been like had they raised me together within the smae household. A parents involvement with their child's upbringing married or unmarried is only good if it is good for the child. It's true that both adults should do their best to provide their child with a loving and supporting environment and make personal sacrifices to do so. However, it is not always beneficial to the child to have both parents actively involved within the smae household or sometimes even in joint custody situations as Alec Baldwin's recent tiraid against his daughter shows.



Complete call here...



I'm not sure what's worse about this incident, the possibility that the mother was at some point and in some way influencing her daughter's decision to not take her father's calls, the threats, the name calling of the daughter or the mother or the way the conservatives are trying to use this as as an example of why liberals and therefore liberalism is bad. Justified in his anger or not, he crossed the line and committed a jackass move during a bitter custody battle.