Reframing the Narrative: The Reality of Celebrity Parenting and the Impact on Children and Mothers

I just saw that video everyone’s talking about of Cam Newton talking to Doctor Cheyenne Bryant about how he has 8 children by 3 different women and still wants to get married and he doesn’t see anything wrong with that because he thinks that he is a great father and provider for all of his 8 children and I wanna pose a different perspective on the issue because that’s messed up and I think we all know that number one no amount of money in the world can buy you time and a lot of these people we idolize that are good at sports or good at music or whatever every hour we see them playing in a basketball game sitting on a podcast whatever are hours they’re spending not raising their children just because you’re paying the bills and your kids go to a nice school and drive a nice car and wear nice clothes does not mean you’re raising them a broken home is a broken home whether it’s an apartment or a mansion and social media has us all messed up because we can see videos of these men giving their kids these beautiful birthday presents and parties and blah blah and we’re like damn he’s a great dad but they don’t be raising them kids no amount of money can buy you more than 24 hours in a day and you expect me to believe that you spent two hours sitting on a podcast couch talking about your kids and you’re somehow still physically present and there for every single one of them you’re raising all of them and the part that frustrates me the most is nobody has empathy for the mothers of these children I see comments all the time that are like oh this girl got pregnant by NBA player like she’s got it made like she set for life not even understanding that carrying and delivering a child has so much effect on the female body just because they’re not clocking into a 9 to 5 job does not mean that they’re not spending so many hours a day breastfeeding taking care of these children physically and emotionally picking them up and taking them to school taking them to soccer practice cooking cleaning that is not a lifestyle we should be glamorizing or encouraging there are plenty of children who are raised in broken homes who have great lives but that’s not cute any child that’s raising a dynamic where the mother or the father is not physically present is going to have trauma kids are not accessories stop getting people pregnant when you don’t wanna sleep in the same house as their mother and be there with them when they wake up and eat breakfast with them every morning why are we doing that could you imagine sitting up at home raising some man’s kids and he’s out here on podcast telling the world that he wants to marry someone that is not you and the fact that you’re gonna have to explain that to your kids one day and on top of that he says he wants to have more why don’t you focus on the children you already got