Kansas City Chiefs kicker <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chiefs-kicker-fulfills-wish-from-family-of-super-bowl-parade-shooting-victim" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harrison Butker</a> pushed back on the narrative blaming guns for the shooting that rocked this year&#8217;s Super Bowl victory parade in his home city. Instead, he attributed the rise in violent crime to a growing lack of fathers in the home.
Butler made the comments during a recent interview with &#8220;EWTN News In Depth,&#8221; where he explained that a lack of good parenting, particularly from fathers, was spilling from homes into the streets as young men — and increasingly, young women as well — are resorting to violent outbursts to solve disputes.
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WATCH: Three-time Catholic Super Bowl Champ Harrison Butker instantly flips script on reporter baiting question on gun-control following Kansas City parade shooting:
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&#8220;I know gun violence was a big discussion, but at the end of the day, this is degenerate violence and it should not be occurring,&#8221; the kicker explained. &#8220;I think we need strong fathers in the home. I think we need men that are leading, that are setting good examples, that are teaching the young men in our society that violence is not the way to handle our disputes.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s very unfortunate what happened. Unfortunately, many, many children were injured. A beautiful, young lady was killed over someone getting offended and turning to violence to handle that dispute,&#8221; Butker continued, referencing the shooting in Kansas City directly. &#8220;It’s so sad. I don’t think guns are the issue. I think we need fathers in the home that are being great examples for our youth.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/2-adults-arrested-charged-with-murder-in-kansas-city-chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shooting</a> that rocked this year&#8217;s Super Bowl parade broke out as a dispute between two groups of people quickly escalated to multiple members of both groups first brandishing weapons and then shooting. One woman was killed and a number of others — including several children — were injured in the crossfire.
Officials reported that in the aftermath of the shooting, two juveniles have been arrested and detained, and three men were charged with federal gun crimes.

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The Irish government has been served the mother of all wake-up calls.
Having spent 24 million euros in taxpayer money on a virtue-signaling effort to convince the nation to remove the word “mother” from its Constitution, the Irish government was dealt a swift clip around the ear this past weekend with a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ireland-looks-set-reject-constitutional-changes-2024-03-09/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resounding defeat</a> of its latest “progressive” referendum.
The proposed changes would have removed provisions that recognize and honor women’s service to society in raising the next generation of responsible citizens:
<blockquote>… the State recognises that by her life within the home, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved.
The State shall, therefore, endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home.</blockquote>
A “yes” result would have replaced this language with a gender neutral alternative, obliging the State more vaguely to support care within the home and the community. It might seem like a small tweak. And certainly, there are some men who play a significant role as stay-at-home dads. But the male and female experiences in the workplace, home, and society-at-large are different. Women and men are not interchangeable. The pressures placed on mothers are unique. It’s she, having birthed the child in an experience that no man can replicate, who then navigates the delicate balance of work-versus-family.
Irish mothers, it would seem, knew best — with a thundering 74% vote in favor of protecting the original wording of the constitution.
The data has always supported such an outcome — which the government might have noticed, had they not blindly assumed that they could speak for the women of Ireland. <a href="https://everymum.ie/my-family/two-thirds-of-irish-mothers-would-prefer-to-stay-home-instead-of-going-to-work" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Two-thirds</a> of Irish mums would prefer to stay at home to parent full-time, than return to work — if only they could afford it.
It’s a sentiment echoed across the West, with <a href="https://time.com/4068559/gallup-poll-stay-at-home-mothers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">56%</a> of American mums agreeing that they’d prefer to stay home and prioritize child-raising over career advancement. Over a <a href="https://www.civitas.org.uk/2023/05/10/mothers-preferences-over-childcare-and-work/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">third</a> of their British counterparts concur. Today’s model of “boss babe” feminism typically stigmatizes this dream, requiring women regain social status by rejoining the rat race to the boardroom as soon as possible after giving birth.
But what have we gained from such a model? A plummeting birth rate, for one. The pressure on women to spend their twenties and thirties advancing through zoom calls and office cubicles has surely played a hand in the birthrate recently <a href="https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/irelands-birth-rate-drops-sharply-to-reach-lowest-level-in-decades-1598551.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">falling</a> to the lowest level on record in six decades. A generation of disillusioned women have been schooled that their value in society depends on their GDP contribution, rather than their input into raising the next generation.
Western governments have taken “maternity policy” to largely mean cheaper outsourcing of childcare, to allow women to return to work as soon as possible — rather than finding creative solutions to support women’s choices to prioritize parenting, and invest in raising the next generation. The outcome for society is yet to be fully unpacked. U.S. studies <a href="https://www.nichd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/publications/pubs/documents/seccyd_06.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> that lots of hours spent in outsourced daycare can have a link to increased aggression and disobedience in children, poorer relationships with teachers, and a higher susceptibility to risk-taking at the age of 15 — including through sex, drugs and alcohol use.
It’s not only an outdated concept of Carrie Bradshaw feminism that is downgrading the value and respect attributed to mums. The growing practice of surrogacy demands the commercialization of motherhood — downgrading the role of a pregnant mother as a mere “incubator” for a product to be passed on to a customer. An increasing trend amongst gay men growing a family through surrogacy is to announce the news on social media with their shirts off, in a hospital bed, posing as if post-birth. UK Law Commission proposals would seek to enable two dads in such a situation to be named on the birth certificate on the day, thus erasing both the legal and social role of a mother in the life of the child she carried and delivered.
There’s no question about it — dads are amazing, and are necessary in a child’s life. But a thousand excellent dads cannot replace one mum — and her unique, feminine, nurturing role. The life of a mother is an often thankless task. Ireland are miles ahead of the rest of the West in acknowledging her irreplaceable role within their constitution. It’s time now to put their words into practice — by honoring mums with better, more flexible work options, and the ability to make an empowered choice to stay absent from the workforce for the length of time she deems necessary to raise her children.
The Irish government have talked a strong game about supporting “choice” in recent years. If that’s the case, it’s long past time to support a woman’s choice to be a committed mum.
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Lois McLatchie Miller is Senior Legal Communications Officer for Alliance Defending Freedom UK. Follow her: @LoisMcLatch
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Mum’s Still The Word: Irish Legislature Shoots Down ‘Gender Neutral’ Referendum

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For those with a special someone, today is Valentine’s Day. For all the single ladies, it is Galentine’s Day. But what is it for the bachelors? To my knowledge, men do not band together en masse on February 14th to mix up fruity pink cocktails, watch chick flicks, and build solidarity in their singleness. In fact, bromances appear to be in decline, as 15% of men say they <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/07/american-men-suffer-a-friendship-recession/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have zero close friends</a>. 
The male friendship recession is just one manifestation of the boy crisis, a crisis worth reflecting on especially today, the day of big romance. The boy crisis is widespread, impacting boys and men academically, economically, physically, and spiritually. On average, the IQs of boys are declining. The <a href="https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/leading-causes-of-death-in-men" target="_blank" rel="noopener">second leading cause of death</a> for American men under 45 is suicide. Largely due to drug abuse and physical and mental problems, only 25% of men ages 17-24 <a href="https://amarkfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/DOD-QMA-2020-Brief-PUBLIC.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">qualified for military service in 2020</a>. As the wages of those with a high school degree decline, some men are willingly checking out of the workforce altogether, so much so that male workforce engagement now matches the level it was during the Great Depression. All this adds up to millions of young men who have been left without purpose.
While our education system and the shift from a manufacturing to a global knowledge economy have done their fair share of damage, according to <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Boy-Crisis-Boys-Struggling-About/dp/1942952716" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Boy Crisis: Why Our Boys are Struggling and What We Can Do About It</a>, (Farrell &amp; Gray, 2018) the ultimate driver behind the boy crisis is dad deprivation. Approximately 40% of children are born out of wedlock; because of this and high divorce rates, <a href="https://www.deseret.com/2023/6/15/23758334/fathers-day-brad-wilcox-fatherhood-in-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as Brad Wilcox</a>, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, states, “only about half of children will spend the duration of their childhood with both of their biological parents.” Moms and dads contribute in unique and essential ways to the raising of children, but boys especially need the modeled manifestation of what it means to be a good man, and their first model is their fathers. 
Single parents, who have sometimes been unwillingly left behind by divorce, make valorous sacrifices for their children, and <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1741-3729.2008.00533.x" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nonresidential fathers are doing a better job of staying involved</a>. But the practical realities of fatherhood apart from marriage are often challenging. For example, according to The Boy Crisis, “when unmarried couples live together when their child is born, by the child’s third birthday, 40 percent of those children will have no regular contact with their dad for the next two years—between ages three and five.” For this reason, if we want to get serious about addressing the boy crisis, we need to get serious about marriage. Understanding the purpose of marriage will help us fortify it.
Many now believe that romance is the cornerstone of marriage. Once it dissipates, the couple should part ways so that each individual can find that lovin’ feeling again. More frequently than in the past, couples are divorcing for <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-two-parent-advantage" target="_blank" rel="noopener">less serious reasons</a>. The dissolution of &#8220;low conflict&#8221; relationships is <a href="https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol36/3/36-3.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">particularly detrimental for children</a>, as they can experience more stress and more of a feeling of loss following separation. 
Much of our culture reinforces such attitudes towards relationships. The radical autonomy of expressive individualism permeates our moral imagination. Expressive individualism, “involves growing and changing as a person, paying attention to your feelings, and expressing your needs.” As Andrew Cherlin, a sociology and public policy professor at Johns Hopkins University, explains in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Marriage-Go-Round-State-Marriage-Family-America/dp/0307386384/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1707922637&amp;sr=1-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today</a>, under such conditions, “marriages are harder to keep together, because what matters is not merely the things they jointly produce—well-adjusted children, nice homes—but also each person’s own happiness.” And by happiness we mean pleasure and psychological self-actualization, not human flourishing grounded in virtue and obligation.
In truth, admirable marriages are replete with work and adventure. Their purpose is to provide a stable and loving environment for the rearing and education of children and to form the character of each spouse. Marriage is often not easy or comfortable. As human beings, we grow attached to our favorite vices, and letting them go can be painful. But it is also freeing. Ideally in marriage, rather than prioritizing his or her own emotional satisfaction, through choice and circumstance, each spouse sacrifices for the sake of that mysterious third entity: the marriage.  
Our culture largely no longer promotes this understanding. Those Galentine’s Day favorites (excluding the incomparable work of ethicist Jane Austen) often don’t depict what it is that really matters when looking for a spouse. Indeed, it is no accident that many chick flicks end at the altar, perhaps because marriage occasionally falls short of being camera-ready. This is not to say that all romantic films are bad. Part of the reason they appeal to us is because they affirm how important relationships are for long-term happiness. The choice of a spouse is the decision of a lifetime.
Yet numerous singles today have been left confused about how to choose well. Many children of divorce grow up lacking a model of a solid marriage. As adults, such children <a href="https://doi.org/10.1037/0736-9735.21.3.353">can have a negative view of marriage</a>, struggle to work through conflict in a healthy manner, and are unsure what characteristics to prioritize in a partner. <a href="https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/commentary/the-culture-online-dating-encourages-hook-ups-not-marriage">Online dating makes this worse</a>. After being bombarded with profiles, users end up thinking that they should be able to find someone who embodies all the features they dream they desire.
We need to shift our cultural conversation around marriage, to move away from pure romance toward the deep, abiding, and sacrificial love that husbands and wives offer each other and their children. Doing so will help end the dad deprivation that is the main driver of today’s boy crisis. And then, perhaps, our boys, too, will have valentines.
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Brenda M. Hafera is the Assistant Director and Senior Policy Analyst at The Heritage Foundation&#8217;s Simon Center for American Studies.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Daytime talk show host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Maury Povich</a>, who is well known for announcing the results of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/father">paternity tests</a> on air, took his talents to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/denver">Denver Zoo</a> for a big reveal.
The 84-year-old “Maury” host told waiting fans which male in the orangutan group fathered a four-month-old baby named Siska. The options were 30-year-old Berani or 16-year-old Jaya. 
The Denver Zoo had some fun with it, having Povich announce the baby’s paternity with his customary line, “You are the father!” in a video reveal posted to X on December 19.
“Fresh off receiving the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Honor, Maury Povich is here to help us announce the paternity results for Siska, our four-month-old Sumatran orangutan! Is Siska&#8217;s father thirty-year-old Berani or 16-year-old Jaya? Watch the video for the big reveal!” the zoo’s social media post said in the caption.
Povich donned a tuxedo and bow tie for the big moment.
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Fresh off receiving the Daytime Emmys Lifetime Achievement Honor, Maury Povich is here to help us announce the paternity results for Siska, our four-month-old Sumatran orangutan! Is Siska&#39;s father thirty-year-old Berani or 16-year-old Jaya? Watch the video for the big reveal! 🧡 <a href="https://t.co/jyh1Mp0Y7C">pic.twitter.com/jyh1Mp0Y7C</a>
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“We want to thank the Denver Zoo for everything they do, but this is really important,” the talk show host said while holding an envelope with the test results.
“When it comes to the orangutan — 4-month-old Siska — Berani, you are  the father,” he continued as the screen split showed a photo of the two potential dads.
After the reveal, the video showed several people cheering and cut to an image of an orangutan, ostensibly Berani, swinging around in his enclosure.
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“Berani is the father,” the people then said in unison, as the video drew to a close.
Though “Maury” is technically retired, he recently said he’d resume his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/maury-povich-says-hell-come-out-of-retirement-to-dna-test-matthew-mcconaughey-and-woody-harrelson">DNA test reveals</a> for Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, who have said publicly that there’s a chance they’re really brothers. 
“We could do primetime, ‘DNA: Maury’s Back With Woody and Matthew.’ I’ll even get my showtime color back in my hair,” Povich said in September. “Woody’s got my number. I’m ready.”
McConaughey told Kelly Ripa that his mom made him wonder if Harrelson might be related to him. 
“In Greece a few years ago, we’re sitting around talking about how close we are and our families. And my mom is there, and she says, ‘Woody, I knew your dad,’” McConaughey said at the time. “Everyone was aware of the ellipses that my mom left after ‘knew.’ It was a loaded K-N-E-W.”
The “Dallas Buyers Club” actor said he wasn’t sure if he wanted to take the test because of what it would mean to find out that the man who raised him potentially wasn’t his biological father.

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‘You Are The Father!’ Maury Povich Announces Paternity Results For Orangutan At Denver Zoo

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Many people on social media reacted with praise for <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus-v3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bentkey</a>’s top kids show “Chip Chilla” Tuesday after The New York Times published a piece <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeremy-boreing-slams-nyt-after-paper-targets-bentkeys-chip-chilla-for-depicting-weirdly-present-father" target="_blank" rel="noopener">targeting</a> the series for depicting a “weirdly present” father. 
In the Times piece published on Monday, writer Amanda Hess criticized portrayals of the fathers in “Chip Chilla” and the popular Australian series “Bluey” as “fantasy” because they are active and engaged with their children. The NYT writer also suggested that the dad in “Chip Chilla” is the worst offender of the two because he teaches “lessons about dead white people.” 
“Remember, folks, Bentkey&#8217;s #ChipChilla is Extremely Problematic™ because it teaches kids about &#8220;dead white people&#8221; like, you know, many of the greatest heroes of all time,” Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1737227430975185364" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on X. “Also, it is now Extremely Patriarchal™ for Dad to be involved with educating the kids, per the NYT&#8217;s latest critique of #ChipChilla. Better to trans them, obviously.”
“‘I hate Chip Chilla because the dad isn’t a lazy idiot and the mom does housework. Also, I hate my kids!’ —the NYT,” Daily Wire host Michael Knowles <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1737225782945267824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. 
“Love it. The @nytimes has become so morally deformed it&#8217;s almost cruel to laugh at them. But I&#8217;ll try my best,” Daily Wire host Andrew Klavan <a href="https://twitter.com/andrewklavan/status/1737182757757780171" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>. 
Popular X account End Wokeness also chimed in, writing, “The NY Times is mad at Bentkey&#8217;s ‘Chip Chilla’ because the dad homeschools and teaches his kids about ‘dead white people.’ By the way, those ‘dead white people’ are George Washington, Neil Armstrong, Ben Franklin, etc.
“They are also fuming that the show has a father figure play the central role,” End Wokeness added.
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The NY Times is mad at Bentkey&#39;s &quot;Chip Chilla&quot; because the dad homeschools and teaches his kids about &quot;dead white people&quot;
By the way, those &quot;dead white people&quot; are George Washington, Neil Armstrong, Ben Franklin, etc.
They are also fuming that the show has a father figure play… <a href="https://t.co/ADiJ5FEYEM">pic.twitter.com/ADiJ5FEYEM</a>
&mdash; End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) <a href="https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1737206656939745290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 19, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Others on social media piled on the Times for the piece while praising “Chip Chilla” for entertaining children through good values. 
“Chip Chilla is a fantastic show and idk why I’m surprised people are upset that there’s a show that promotes ‘weirdly present fathers.’ I watch every episode with my kids. Love the work @RobSchneider,” one X user <a href="https://twitter.com/AmericanRailgun/status/1737173775731601741" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a>. 
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Another person credited the NYT for “facilitating” Chip Chilla’s introduction to his children. 
“My two little ones love Bluey. I will definitely be introducing them to Chip Chilla as well,” Joshua Kane <a href="https://twitter.com/YourNewVillain/status/1737214416108519501" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Maybe I owe a little gratitude to the @nytimes for facilitating the introduction of Chip Chilla to my children.”   
“Kind of weird seeing @nytimes advertise for @realDailyWire like this,” another person on X <a href="https://twitter.com/MichaelFKane/status/1737168800783409663" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. “As a parent, hearing them compare Chip Chilla in the same breath as Bluey is high praise. Lol.”
After the NYT piece was published, Daily Wire co-founder Jeremy Boreing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jeremy-boreing-slams-nyt-after-paper-targets-bentkeys-chip-chilla-for-depicting-weirdly-present-father" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>, writing, “Chip Chilla is the most popular show on our new Bentkey platform, and Bluey is the most popular children’s show period,” Boreing added. “It’s no coincidence that two shows that feature loving and engaged nuclear families with great values who actually enjoy being together are so popular.”
He went on to note how it’s “no coincidence” that the “cultural gatekeepers” at the Times are targeting these particular programs.
“The left not only wants to add its radical agenda to kids entertainment, they want to remove good values from kids entertainment,” Boreing said.

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Daily Wire co-founder <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jeremy-boreing">Jeremy Boreing</a> slammed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-times">New York Times</a> piece that described the fathers on both <a href="https://get.dailywire.com/subscribe/plus-v3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bentkey</a>’s “Chip Chilla” and the hit Australian series “Bluey” as “a fantasy.”
“There are two kids shows that stand out to the [NYT] as problematic: Bentkey’s ‘Chip Chilla’ and ‘Bluey.’ And what’s so problematic? ‘Weirdly present’ fathers,” Boreing shared in an X post about the article. 
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There are two kids shows that stand out to the <a href="https://twitter.com/nytimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@nytimes</a> as problematic: Bentkey’s Chip Chilla and Bluey. And what’s so problematic? “Weirdly present” fathers.
Both fathers are derided as a “fantasy” for being so active and engaged with their children but, according to NYT, Chip… <a href="https://t.co/Y5E87h5x65">pic.twitter.com/Y5E87h5x65</a>
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“Both fathers are derided as a ‘fantasy’ for being so active and engaged with their children but, according to NYT, Chip Chilla is the far more offensive of the two because Chum Chum teaches ‘lessons about dead white people’ (read: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Neil Armstrong, etc.) and leads his kids in fun games and lessons as a way of establishing ‘male authority,’” Boreing continued.
“Chip Chilla is the most popular show on our new Bentkey platform, and Bluey is the most popular children’s show period,” Boreing added. “It’s no coincidence that two shows that feature loving and engaged nuclear families with great values who actually enjoy being together are so popular.”
He went on to note how it’s “no coincidence” that the “cultural gatekeepers” at the Times are targeting these particular programs.
“The left not only wants to add its radical agenda to kids entertainment, they want to remove good values from kids entertainment,” Boreing said.
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NYT writer Amanda Hess noted in her<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/arts/television/bluey-chip-chilla-dad.html"> article</a> how in the first episode of “Bluey,” the archeologist father, Bandit, “keeps house” while his wife works outside the home. She describes Bandit as “a fun dad who does housework, too” and always plays with his kids. Hess views this portrayal as unrealistic, writing that his “omnipresence is odd, and striking.” 
The writer goes on to describe how her own child is often “staring at a screen” while she takes care of household chores like laundry. “Bandit represents a parent freed of drudgery, one whose central responsibility is delighting his kids,” Hess adds, claiming that parents don’t play with their children in real life because they’re too focused on other tasks.
Hess has the same complaints about Bentkey’s “Chip Chilla,” which is about a homeschooling family with the dad, Chum Chum, serving as the children&#8217;s instructor. She describes Chum Chum as “a highly involved father and unrelenting jokester who rarely seems to have to work.”
She also says Chum Chum is likely the children’s teacher “because it puts male authority at the center of the show.”
“Our culture has fallen so far and at times it might seem hopeless,&#8221; Boreing concluded. &#8220;Bentkey isn’t anywhere near the level of size and influence of the NYTs and Disneys of the world, but we created it because we have hope and believe our best days are ahead of us, and that the only way we can take back the culture from the left is by building something better.&#8221;

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Jeremy Boreing Slams NYT After Paper Targets Bentkey’s ‘Chip Chilla’ For Depicting ‘Weirdly Present’ Father

Jeremy Boreing Slams NYT After Paper Targets Bentkey's 'Chip Chilla' For Depicting ‘Weirdly Present’ Father

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/al-pacino">Al Pacino</a> agreed to pay the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parents">mother</a> of his young son $30,000 per month in child support payments, according to documents obtained by <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/11/02/al-pacino-30000-per-month-child-support-noor-alfallah/">TMZ</a>.
The 83-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">actor</a> shocked fans when it was revealed that he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/father">fathered</a> a son with his 29-year-old girlfriend, Noor Alfallah, in June of this year. Now the pair has worked out a financial arrangement regarding their child, though it’s believed that they are still romantically involved.
The outlet reported that Pacino will begin by paying $110,000 up front and then $30,000 a month in base child support, though that number could fluctuate depending on his income, with that amount increasing by $90,000 at the end of the year. He will also put $15,000 per year in an education fund for their son, Roman.
TMZ also noted that Pacino has been paying $13,000 a month for a night nurse. The “Dog Day Afternoon” actor will also apparently fork over extra money for any medical expenses which aren’t covered by insurance.
Alfallah previously filed a petition in September to determine the parental relationship between herself, Pacino, and the baby, as The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/al-pacinos-29-year-old-baby-mama-files-for-full-custody-just-3-months-after-giving-birth">reported</a>. The documents allowed for Pacino to have “reasonable visitation” rights with the child but requested full physical custody for Alfallah. 
Alfallah also requested the actor to pay her legal fees and court costs.
Pacino has three other children: 33-year-old Julie with Jan Tarrant, and 22-year-old twins Anton and Olivia with Beverly D’Angelo. He has never been married. The actor was allegedly surprised to have fathered a child with Alfallah due to a medical condition he has which causes infertility. Pacino is believed to have asked for a paternity test, which did confirm the child was his.
Though he wasn’t expecting it, Pacino was apparently happy to be having another baby. “It’s very special. It always has been. I’ve got many kids. But this is really special coming at this time,” he said.
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Pacino and Alfallah had been secretly dating since 2020, per Page Six. Alfallah was formerly linked with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen. A source told the outlet that Alfallah “mostly dates very rich older men.”

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Al Pacino, 83, Will Pay $30K Per Month In Child Support, Share Custody Of Son: Report

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Post Malone</a> recently explained why he doesn’t want his fiancée or young <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/father">daughter</a> to be in the spotlight. 
The 28-year-old <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment">rapper</a>, whose real name is Austin Post, made his feelings known during a recent <a href="https://crfashionbook.com/post-malone-austin-interview-cr-fashion-book/">interview</a> with CR Fashion Book.
“I feel like a lot of people feel entitled to know every single detail of everyone’s life and it’s why I don’t want to post any pictures of my baby, because I want her to be able to make that decision whenever she wants to and is ready,&#8221; Malone told the outlet.
“We live in such an interestingly semi-connected world where everybody is a phone call away, but you lose a lot of the intricacies and nuance of being with the person and seeing what’s actually happening.&#8221;
He also raved about becoming a father, saying being a dad “really does make me work harder out of love – you want to get up and make the world, for her at least, the best that you can. I’m in one of the most blessed positions in the world and I’m one of the luckiest motherf***ers to be able to get to do what I love as a job.”
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As far as concerns, Malone said his involved gifts his daughter received. &#8220;It’s scary because her grandpa got her a little Maybach and she loves it. It’s terrifying because I’m like, ‘You don’t like this car. You want something with better gas mileage, you want something that’s a little cheaper&#8230;,’&#8221; the singer quipped.
During a 2022 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/she-saved-my-fing-life-post-malone-opens-up-about-battle-with-alcohol-and-praises-fiancee-for-getting-him-out-of-dark-times">interview</a>, Malone said his relationship “saved” him from the darkness of alcohol addiction
“I am responsible now,” the “Circles” singer said when asked about his sobriety. “It was to a really rough point, and I couldn’t get up off the floor for weeks.”
“I just have super beautiful people around me, and I met a really beautiful person that made me feel like a human being again,” Malone said of his fiancée. “It’s the guidance out of the dark into the light. … She saved my f***ing life — it’s pretty epic.”

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Post Malone Explains Why He Keeps Young Daughter Away From Cameras: ‘People Feel Entitled’

Post Malone Explains Why He Keeps Young Daughter Away From Cameras

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I have spent a lot of time in my career defending the institution of marriage. I defend it because it is the bedrock of civilization, so it deserves defending. And I defend it because it is under constant attack, so it needs defending. One of the most troubling developments in recent years — which we’ve discussed on this show in the past — is that these attacks are increasingly waged not just from the Left but from certain noisy segments of the Right as well. Some right-wing influencers — with legions of young, mostly male fans — have decided that men should abandon marriage and family life and go their own way. These influencers — many of whom consider themselves a part of the so-called “red pill” movement — pretend to despise feminists, and yet have essentially arrived at the same conclusion as feminists: give up on the family. The two sides hate marriage almost as much as they hate each other.
One of these influencers is a woman named Pearl Davis who has garnered a relatively large following on YouTube and various social media platforms. She’s in her mid twenties, single, and childless, and yet full of opinions about modern marriage and family life — a subject she has no personal insight into whatsoever. She has spent the past few days on the internet complaining about “tradcons” like myself who, she says, promote the nuclear family despite not understanding what it’s really like. Yes, we men who actually have wives and children don’t know what it’s like to be married, but a woman who is not married and has no children does know what it’s like.
In one of her tweets she wrote: “The trad cons push marriage because they aren’t old enough to know better yet. They don’t know the reality of what they’re pushing.” This is accompanied by a picture of myself, Ben Shapiro, and Michael Knowles. We “aren’t old enough to know better” and “don’t know the reality of what we’re pushing.” Yet a woman who is younger than us, and single, does know better and does understand this reality. 
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The trad cons push marriage because they aren’t old enough to know better yet. 
They don’t know the reality of what they’re pushing. <a href="https://t.co/DttSVE7XtB">pic.twitter.com/DttSVE7XtB</a>
&mdash; H. Pearl Davis (@pearlythingz) <a href="https://twitter.com/pearlythingz/status/1704925417440731627?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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In other posts she goes on to say that marriage is a “terrible deal for men.” She later explains: “Would you ever sign a contract that fails 75% of the time where your business partner is paid to break the contract? Why would you encourage men to sign that contract until the terms are fixed?”
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The virtue signaling needs to stop. For an organization that talks about facts &#8211; let’s ask the question. 
Would you ever sign a contract that fails 75% of the time where your business partner is paid to break the contract? 
Why would you encourage men to sign that contract… <a href="https://t.co/vpZO7rqFkf">https://t.co/vpZO7rqFkf</a>
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You may be surprised to learn that marriages fail at a rate of 75%. The figure that people like this normally use is 50%. The claim that 50% of marriages end in divorce is already spurious. More on that in a moment. But 75%? I was wondering where that number came from, so I scrolled down and saw something she reposted from an alleged lawyer who said this: “It’s not 50:50 – that only accounts for divorces. Add another 25% on the negative side for miserable men trapped in “cheaper to keep her” marriages unwilling to risk financial destruction and loss of their children. 75% chance of a devastatingly bad outcome is just a bad plan. No sane person would enter into a commercial contract on such terms.” I did ask him where he got this 75% figure and he wouldn’t say. Apparently the magic statistic fairy came and whispered it in his ear. 
For her part, Pearl later tweeted a picture of <a href="https://twitter.com/pearlythingz/status/1706092154131476883" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Pierce Brosnan with his wife</a> of 20 years. She questioned whether the marriage “counts as successful” since Brosnan’s wife has put on some weight at the age of 60. Apparently even if they’re happy and have remained married for two decades, they still might fall into that 75% failure rate because they have not both remained in super model condition into their 60s.
This debate on social media brought out the rest of the marriage-skeptical crowd on the Right. A bunch of these &#8220;red pill&#8221; influencers decided to hop on an emergency Zoom call and spend two hours talking about me, and the rest of the Daily Wire crew, and our reckless promotion of society’s most fundamental institution. There’s a divorce lawyer who says that the failure rate for marriage is not 50%, not 75%, but in fact <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/iyFaZohlPic?feature=shared&amp;t=1659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even higher</a>. A happy marriage, he says, is like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/iyFaZohlPic?feature=shared&amp;t=1659">winning the lottery</a>. The thing about the lottery, though, is that almost everyone loses. This is a perfect summation of how this entire club views marriage. Sure it can be great, they concede — but only if you’re insanely lucky. Everyone else is screwed. It is a rather bleak view. Thankfully, it’s also nonsense. First of all, the claim that marriage isn’t “scalable” is obviously ludicrous. Marriage has served as the bedrock of human society since time immemorial. It has already happened at the scale of civilization for thousands of years.
What about the failure rate of marriages in our culture? We’ve heard 50%, we’ve heard 75%, and we just heard that they fail at a rate similar to the rate that people lose the lottery. Which would mean higher than 99%. Yet these kinds of astronomical odds are not based in anything but the doom and gloom speculations of the people inventing them. There is no evidence that having a happy marriage is as unlikely as winning the lottery, or that 75% of marriages end in misery. What about the 50% number? This at least is a familiar statistic — familiar, but bogus. One way that you know it’s bogus is that people have been claiming 50% of marriages end in divorce since I was a kid. That would mean divorce rates are static across time, but of course that isn’t the case. In fact, we know that divorce rates have gone down in recent years. So where does the 50% figure come from? Apparently, it’s a holdover from the 1980s, which is when people first started citing that statistic, and it’s not true today. It’s also not clear that it was true in the 80s either.
What is the actual divorce rate? Our best guess is based on U.S. Census data, which, according to the most recent figures, says that about 35% of American adults who have been married, have been divorced. 35% is high — way too high — but it’s not 50%, and it’s not 75%, and it’s not 99%, and it’s not lottery odds. Still, isn’t it terrifying to think that, if you get married, your chance of failure is 35% and the chance of success is only 65%, at the most? Isn’t that high enough that it should dissuade anyone from attempting it? The answer to that question is no. Here’s why.
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If the divorce rate is 35% — or even if it’s 50% — it does not follow that your own particular marriage has a 35 or 50% chance of failure. I’m not saying that you should be cocky or reckless or see yourself as invincible. I am saying that you shouldn’t, on the other extreme, see yourself as passive debris floating helplessly on the tide of statistical likelihoods. You are an individual, your marriage is an individual thing, and its chances of failure are not set by society at large.
Here’s an example to illustrate what I mean. The obesity rate in the United States is over 40%. Does that mean that your own chances of becoming obese are 40%? No, it does not. Your chances might be 5%, they might be practically zero, or they might be quite a bit higher than 40%. That’s because obesity is the result of behavior and choices. If you do not engage in the behavior or make the choices that lead to obesity, you will not become obese. The fact that 40% of the people around you are fat does not mean that you automatically have a 40% obesity risk.
Let’s take another example: car accidents.ar accidents. Americans get into car accidents at a certain rate. I’m not sure what the rate is, and it doesn’t matter for our purposes. What does matter is that your own individual chance of getting into a car accident is not the same as every other driver on the road. The people who compile statistics will say things like “motorists have an (X)% chance of getting into a collision.” But you are not just a generic motorist. You are an individual. You can never bring your own chance of dying in a fiery car wreck down to zero, but if you are a responsible driver then obviously your chances of getting into an accident are much lower than the chances of someone who is not responsible. All of those stupid drivers who don’t understand the basic rules of the road, and like to tweet and eat while they drive, are inflating the numbers for everyone. They are also making the roads more dangerous for everyone — because of them your chances of getting into a car accident are actually higher. But your chances are not as high as their chances. You do not share their level of risk. Because, again, you are an individual not a mere statistic.
What about marriage? It’s true that even if you do everything right, things can still fall apart if your spouse doesn’t follow that program. That happens. It’s terrible, but it happens. It’s also true that there are many, many things you can do in your marriage to make it much more secure than the average. Obvious things. You can marry someone who shares your same fundamental values. You can state from the outset that you both, in principle, don’t believe in divorce and won’t consider it as a viable option for solving any marital difficulties you may experience down the line. Have a strong and shared faith. Establish from the beginning a habit of honest communication. Make time for each other. Continue to date even — or especially — as your lives get busier and you start having kids and so on. Make a strong effort to be patient with and grateful to each other. Take care of your body and your appearance. You can do all of these things, and more.
I’m not saying that if you do all of this it will bring your divorce chance down to zero. I’m not denying that there are plenty of people out there who did it all, at least on their own end, and yet still ended up divorced. That’s not my point. My point is that the “divorce rate” doesn’t take any of this into account. The people who take none of these basic steps are lumped in with the people who do all of it, and we’re supposed to believe that both groups have an equal chance of marital failure. That is just not true.
I don’t deny that there are real, serious problems with marriage in our society. The so-called “red pill” community, and others, raise totally legitimate and important points on that end. We need drastic reform; abolish no-fault divorce; the entire family court system has to be torn down and rebuilt. The system is stacked against men in many ways that are extremely unfair and have ruined countless lives. So, let&#8217;s absolutely fight for those reforms.
But this systemic problem is not going to be solved today, or tomorrow, or next week. Abolishing no-fault divorce is just the beginning of reforming the system. Lawmakers in a small number of red states have only just started to seriously consider that idea, which is merely step one. We are a long way off from fixing the system. It took decades to get us here, it will take decades to get us out, at best. This is a long-term struggle.
The question is what are young men — young people in general — supposed to do in the meantime? This is where the “red pill” becomes more of a hazy, foggy, ambiguous pill. They have no answer. They simply shout about “reforms” that are needed, yet have nothing to say to the young men in our culture today who will be old, if not dead, by the time the system is fixed, if it’s ever fixed at all. What are these young men supposed to do right now? What kind of life would you have them lead right now?
The answer, it appears, is that an entire generation of young men — if not multiple generations — should skip marriage while we wait for the system to improve. But this is not a viable solution. It’s not a solution at all, it&#8217;s a surrender. You are asking entire generations to give up their bloodline, their legacy, their chance of finding the transcendent joy and meaning that family life can provide. You are asking them to give up on themselves, and on civilization itself. For thousands of years human beings have always understood that their most basic purpose and obligation was to form families and have children — and yet you are telling these young men to ignore this calling. And do what instead? Live for themselves, alone, wasting away in front of screens, only to die with no descendants, leaving no lasting mark on the world? Think about the kind of misery you are consigning these men to. Think about the catastrophic, probably fatal effect this would have on our country. You can’t give up on propagating the species for a few decades and then pick it back up again like nothing happened. That doesn’t work on any level — individually or societally. It is a recipe for despair and collapse.
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Am I saying that young men should accept the risk, then, and get married anyway? Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. That doesn’t mean you should be reckless — I’ve already talked about the many practical things you can do to mitigate your own risk so that it is not a roll of the dice. You should do all of those things. Don’t go into marriage blind — but don’t run from it either. Even if you mitigate the risk to the extent possible, still there will be a risk. That’s true.
But here’s the rub: all good things come with risk. The more worthwhile it is, the worse and more disastrous it will be if you fail. If you take on more responsibility, then your life will be more consequential, and the more consequential your life is, the more cataclysmic your failures potentially become. A married man with children lives a life of greater consequence than a single man with no children. There are more people depending on him. He has a greater stake in the future. This means that if things go sideways, it will be a tragedy. If he screws up, or his wife screws up, or they both do, his life will be ruined, his children will be devastated, and the impact will reverberate down through the generations. This is what it means to live a high-impact, consequential life. These are the stakes, and yes they are quite high.
Sure, you can stave off that sort of catastrophe by staying by yourself, never going out on a limb, never taking any risks, never marrying, never having kids, never striving for anything great or meaningful. But then you are not avoiding failure and misery, you are guaranteeing it. You are ensuring that you never lose your family in a divorce by never having a family to lose in the first place, which is like ensuring that you never go bankrupt by being bankrupt to begin with. Not losing by having nothing to lose is a loss in itself. I don’t want that for anyone. It’s not a path to happiness and prosperity — for either you or society. It is a path to defeat — a preemptive and self-imposed defeat. And that is the worst kind of all.

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The Institution Of Marriage Is Under Attack From All Sides

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Actress <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/kerry-washington" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kerry Washington</a> recently discussed her reaction to finding out that the man who raised her was not her biological <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/father" target="_blank" rel="noopener">father</a>, but she was conceived via sperm donation instead.
The “Scandal” star revealed how she learned the truth while promoting her new memoir, “Thicker Than Water.” 
Washington told the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/24/books/kerry-washington-memoir-thicker-than-water.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Times</a> that she realized there could be an issue with her background when she asked her parents for DNA samples in 2018 when she was going to be featured on the PBS show, “Finding Your Roots.” She said that&#8217;s when her parents started acting strangely. 
“I said: ‘I just don’t think they’re going to agree to it. My dad’s really uncomfortable,&#8217;” she told the outlet. 
“I’ve always had this weird disconnect with my dad, but I thought that was my fault. I thought I wasn’t a kind enough person. But the idea that I was not his never occurred to me. It was just, why can’t I be better to him? Why can’t we be closer? What’s wrong with me? What’s wrong with us?” the 46-year-old said. 
Ultimately, her parents shared the secret they kept from her for more than forty years.
“I immediately felt guilty because I could see how much pain my parents were in, my dad in particular,” she added.
Washington revealed that her mother planned to tell her the truth about being conceived via sperm donation by leaving a note in a safe deposit. 
“I was birthed into a lie. I was playing a supporting character in my parents’ story,” she told NYT. “I know that their intention was to protect me, to love me, to take care of me, to keep my world simple. I get many years of not telling me, but I’ve been an adult for over two decades.”
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Washington further discussed her feelings during an interview with <a href="https://people.com/kerry-washington-on-discovering-dad-is-not-biological-father-memoir-7972576" target="_blank" rel="noopener">People</a>, saying, &#8220;It really turned my world upside down.”
&#8220;When I got this information, I was like, &#8216;Oh. I now know my story,'&#8221; the actress added, saying she felt relieved to finally know the truth. &#8220;This is really kind of me working to understand my life up until now, given this new information that I have that, in many ways, felt like sort of the missing puzzle piece,&#8221; she said.
While Washington said her parents were “not thrilled” about her sharing the information publicly, she said it ultimately made them closer.
&#8220;I really started to have so much more love and compassion and understanding for my parents,&#8221; Washington told People. &#8220;Taking this deep dive into our family history made me put myself in their shoes and think about the things that they&#8217;ve had to navigate and what they&#8217;ve been through and what they&#8217;ve sacrificed. And it really made me feel closer to them.&#8221;

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Actress Kerry Washington Says Parents Didn’t Tell Her She Was Conceived Via Sperm Donation Until 2018

Actress Kerry Washington Says Parents Didn't Tell Her She Was Conceived Via Sperm Donation Until 2018

Just three months after giving birth to their first child together, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/al-pacino">Al Pacino</a>’s girlfriend Noor Alfallah has filed for full <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/father">custody</a> of the baby.
Alfallah, 29, filed a petition in Los Angeles on Wednesday to determine the parental relationship between herself, Pacino, and the baby, per a report by <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/09/06/noor-alfallah-files-for-full-custody-of-son-with-al-pacino-3-months-after-giving-birth/">Page Six</a>. The publication noted that this form is typically used for unmarried couples to establish parameters around custody, child support, and visitation rights.
The documents allowed for Pacino, 83, to have “reasonable visitation” rights with the child and asked for shared legal custody but full physical custody. Alfallah also requested the actor to pay her legal fees and court costs. 
The outlet noted that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">Pacino</a> was surprised to have fathered a child at his age, especially due to a medical condition that typically causes infertility. 
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Pacino has three other children: 33-year-old Julie with his ex Jan Tarrant, and 22-year-old twins Anton and Olivia with his ex, Beverly D’Angelo. He has never been married.
Sources said he asked for a paternity test to confirm he was the baby’s father. 
Once he realized he was, the “Scarface” star seemed excited about becoming a dad again. 
“It’s very special,” he said in a video obtained by The Daily Mail. “It always has been. I’ve got many kids. But this is really special coming at this time.”
Pacino and Alfallah had been secretly dating since 2020, Page Six noted. Alfallah was formerly linked with Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger and billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen. A source told the outlet that Alfallah “mostly dates very rich older men.”
As for fatherhood, the legendary actor <a href="https://people.com/al-pacino-girlfriend-noor-alfallah-is-pregnant-7505948">told</a> The New Yorker in 2014, “I’m responsible to them. I’m a part of their life. When I’m not, it’s upsetting to me and to them. So that’s part of the gestalt. And I get a lot from it. It takes you out of yourself.”
News of Pacino fathering a child at 83 broke just a few weeks after Robert De Niro, 79, announced that he had just welcomed a baby with his girlfriend Tiffany Chen. De Niro has six other children with three other women. Pacino and DeNiro are widely considered among the greatest living actors, having worked together in classic films like &#8220;Heat&#8221; (1995) and &#8220;The Godfather Part II&#8221; (1974).

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Al Pacino’s 29-Year-Old Baby Mama Files For Full Custody Just 3 Months After Giving Birth

Al Pacino's Girlfriend Files For Physical Custody Of Their 3-Month Old Son 

Just how dumb do Leftists think you are?  Well, they think you are foolish enough to buy that the real lesson in the string of never-ending Joe and Hunter Biden scandals is the importance of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chaos-rules-in-chicago-the-lack-of-two-parent-homes-is-to-blame" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fatherly</a> love.
From The Associated Press to The New York Times to even the ladies of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; it seems that liberals everywhere are rediscovering the importance of the patriarchy and the tender — and/or tough — guidance that a father can provide.
In the wake of the president&#8217;s latchkey kid&#8217;s plea deal, and his uncanny ability to escape serious criminal charges, The Associated Press <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pride-pain-president-son-hunter-navigated-years-investigation-100263956" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ran</a> a story titled, &#8220;Pride and pain for Biden as his son Hunter reaches a plea deal after 5 years of investigation.&#8221;
The AP, increasingly referred to as American Propaganda, published a &#8220;news&#8221; article portraying President Biden as the victim in all of this and a man who is torn between being a good dad and serving the American people.  Biden said he was &#8220;proud&#8221; of Hunter following the plea deal.
The AP used his comments to blast Republicans.
&#8220;That pride has been accompanied by pain, and for the president’s family, both have been on public display. Republicans have worked to use Hunter Biden’s actions — and his acknowledged struggle with addiction — as an anchor to try to drag down his father,&#8221; The AP <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pride-pain-president-son-hunter-navigated-years-investigation-100263956" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
The president, as our commander-in-chief, has been stripped of his most fundamental duty: Being a dad to his son, according to the AP.
&#8220;The most fatherly of things he could do — advise a son going through a hard time — isn’t exactly available for a man whose administration commands the office that was investigating his son and his political rival simultaneously,&#8221; the AP wrote.
The column details some of Hunter&#8217;s run-ins with the law but presents those alleged crimes as happening alongside Joe Biden. Readers are led to believe that the president could never have been an active participant in the alleged Biden family money-making scheme — except in the figments of Republican imaginations.
Then, The New York Times couched the situation in a similar language.
&#8220;For Biden, the Troubles of His Son Are Personal and Politically Painful,&#8221; a headline ran in The Grey Lady last week.
&#8220;After more than a half-century in politics, no subject may be more personally painful nor politically problematic for President Biden than his troubled son, Hunter,&#8221; The Times&#8217; Peter Baker <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/politics/joe-biden-hunter-plea-deal.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>. &#8220;He is by various accounts a gaping wound in his heart and the most sensitive soft spot in his campaign armor.&#8221;
Again, the problem isn&#8217;t the actual scandal. It&#8217;s that conservatives are calling the Biden family out for alleged wrongdoing.
Baker actually mentioned the infamous laptop in his article — but seemingly waived it away as nothing more than red herring.
He claimed it had taken on a &#8220;totemic meaning&#8221; for Biden&#8217;s opponents, &#8220;even if they cannot describe what was actually found on the computer that turned up at a repair shop in 2020,&#8221; he said, with a whiff of derision in the supposedly &#8220;straight&#8221; news article.
In case Baker needs a refresher about what&#8217;s on that laptop, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hunter-bidens-laptop-documents-at-least-459-legal-violations-watchdog-group-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in 2022 that the laptop documents at least 459 legal violations, according to one watchdog. It also contained potential messages implicating the president.
Then there was Ana Navarro on Monday. Navarro practically broke down in tears talking about the love that Biden displays for his son — nary a care in the world for concerns about corruption or what is on the laptop.
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JUST IN: The View&#39;s Ana Navarro is on the verge of tears as she says the big takeaway from the Hunter Biden laptop is the story of a &#39;father&#39;s love.&#39;
This is how the propaganda state media covers for their dear leader.
&quot;The Hunter Biden story, the scandal, the this the that.… <a href="https://t.co/A0uvuxynd1">pic.twitter.com/A0uvuxynd1</a>
&mdash; Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1673372922885591042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2023</a></blockquote>
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For years now, Americans have been told fathers don&#8217;t matter. The patriarchy should be dismantled. Boys don&#8217;t need dads. As it turns out, Leftists do think that children do need fathers — but only if that relationship can be used by Legacy Media to push a leftist narrative.
Meanwhile, there&#8217;s a girl in Arkansas whose dad apparently wants nothing to do with her and who has a grandpa in the White House who refuses to acknowledge she exists.
It is all so twisted.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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