<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reality star </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kourtney Kardashian</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> provided an update to her social media followers after undergoing emergency fetal surgery to save her unborn baby earlier this month.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Pregnancy is so empowering,” the 44-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">celeb</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> wrote in the caption of her Instagram post, which included several snapshots of her showing off her baby bump.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kardashian previously announced she was expecting a child with husband Travis Barker, the drummer for </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Blink 182</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, at one of the band’s concerts. The reality star also has three </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/children"><span style="font-weight: 400;">children</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> with her ex, Scott Disick. Barker has two teenagers with his ex-wife, Shanna Moakler.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kardashian’s 17-year-old stepdaughter, Alabama, commented on the Instagram post, writing, “Hot mama!”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barker abruptly left his European tour early to rush to his wife’s side as she underwent emergency surgery to save their unborn baby. Kardashian also discussed that experience on social media.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> “I will be forever grateful to my incredible doctors for saving our baby’s life. I am eternally grateful to my husband who rushed to my side from tour to be with me in the hospital and take care of me afterwards, my rock,” she </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/Cw3LtWxPtKe/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">wrote</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the caption of a black-and-white photo of her and Barker holding hands. “And to my mom, thank you for holding my hand through this.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She continued, “As someone who has had three really easy pregnancies in the past, I wasn’t prepared for the fear of rushing into urgent fetal surgery. I don’t think anyone who hasn’t been through a similar situation can begin to understand that feeling of fear. I have a whole new understanding and respect for the mamas who have had to fight for their babies while pregnant.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Praise be to God,” Kardashian concluded. “Walking out of the hospital with my baby boy in my tummy and safe was the truest blessing.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Barker also shared an update on X, saying, “God is great. I flew home for a life-threatening emergency surgery for our baby that I’m so grateful went well. I want to say thank you for all the support. Tour resumes Friday.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kardashian has expressed her feelings about motherhood in the past. &#8220;Being a mother is my favorite role in life. It gives me purpose, changed me for the better and made me realize there is nothing else I would rather do with my time,&#8221; she wrote in a 2019 post on her website, Poosh.</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Postpartum depression (PPD) has drawn increased attention </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">in recent years as people become more knowledgeable about the disorder. While it is a heartbreaking condition for families across the United States, and more discussion and research about it is beneficial, the rising rates of postpartum depression are not happening in a vacuum. Rather, they exist alongside a cultural devaluation of motherhood, which should be considered as a factor in the escalating cases.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many women experience feelings of sadness after having a baby, which are typically called “baby blues,” and often dissipate during the first two weeks postpartum. However, postpartum depression is a lengthier and more serious mental health condition. According to </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">postpartumdepression.org</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, around 10% of women will experience postpartum depression after delivering their babies. Additionally, a </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">report</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from the CDC found that postpartum depressive symptoms occurred among 13.2% of respondents.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The cause of postpartum depression is </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">unknown</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, but factors, such as one’s general lifestyle choices and social situation, could contribute to the disorder. According to the National Library of Medicine, postpartum depression can </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">happen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in women who experience anxiety and depression at any point in their pregnancy. “Risk factors&#8221; include a “[h]istory of depression and anxiety,” as well as having a “[n]egative attitude towards the baby.” Others include a difficult pregnancy, and “[l]ack of social support can cause postpartum depression.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">WebMD </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">states</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that the initial signs of postpartum depression could be women “feel[ing] unhappy about being a parent.” Other symptoms include their sleep patterns shifting, worries that they won’t be a good mom, women struggling to make decisions, and losing interest in things that used to bring them enjoyment. If mothers experience thoughts of harming themselves or their babies, these are symptoms of worsened postpartum depression and postpartum psychosis that should be immediately addressed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Postpartum depression appears to have similar </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">characteristics</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> to other forms of depression — some people are more likely to suffer from it than others, but it is also exacerbated by certain conditions. Some women who are particularly </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">vulnerable</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> might be more likely to develop symptoms of depression after their bodies experience major hormonal changes following delivery. While the public has grown increasingly aware of postpartum depression, the </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">discussion</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> of it focuses on low access to medical care for postpartum women instead of external factors, which are taken into consideration with other mental health struggles.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Depression and anxiety are often treated with medication, but the general population has an understanding that certain elements make a substantial impact on the likelihood that one will experience depression or anxiety. For example, over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, anxiety and depression went up around the world by 25%, according to a brief </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">published</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by the World Health Organization. The increase in isolation and stress impacted people on a worldwide level, but the external factors affecting postpartum women’s mental health are not as immediately taken into consideration.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">shows</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that instances of PPD have been historically rising. A Blue Cross Blue Shield </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">report</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">found</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that postpartum depression diagnoses <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> nearly 30% from 2014 to 2018. In 2016, there was a slight decrease followed by a jump. Early on in the </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">pandemic</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, postpartum depression also went up. It also </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">occurs</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> throughout the world. In Western developed nations, a survey found that PPD prevalence was 7% to 40%, whereas Asian countries saw a prevalence of 3.5% to 63.3%. Globally, it is 10 to 15%. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As concern over postpartum depression grows, the medical community has answered with pharmaceuticals. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">approved</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> the first pill to treat postpartum depression earlier this month. However, while research on postpartum depression should continue, it should not be isolated as a mental health issue that is entirely unlike other depressive conditions that have no connection to societal shifts.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the past several years, society has devalued motherhood to an extent that is likely impacting the feelings of desperation many women experience when confronted with the life-altering shift of becoming a mother. The recent cultural attitude towards motherhood has been a reduction in acknowledging its importance and benefits to society as a whole. It has made women feel as if the stresses and struggles of becoming a mother are abnormal and they would be better off forgoing childbearing completely.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A 2014 Washington Post </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/10/02/most-new-parents-are-totally-unprepared-for-their-new-babies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">article</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> contained information taken from interviews of parents in Australia, most of whom said that they had “‘unrealistic’ expectations” about the characteristics of infants in early parenthood. It also noted how many Americans are having fewer babies than they did in the past, which results in fewer interactions with children, leaving new parents uneducated about how to take care of babies. The Post claimed that the media portrays an unrealistic and inaccurate picture of early motherhood bliss and perfection, which puts a strain on new parents. However, new mothers growing up in today’s society would likely say the opposite.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As others have pointed out, young women are no longer intentionally prepared for the job of raising a family. The internet instead has stepped in to provide a plethora of websites, blogs, courses, and social media accounts to help new moms create routines for their babies. The overload of online tips has replaced one-on-one advice that used to be passed down to the younger generation from older relatives. When moms fail to routinize their lives into a strict schedule, they feel inadequate.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Fifty years of legal abortion across the United States has been the most significant initiation of the devaluation of motherhood. The pop-culture celebration of abortion in particular has characterized pregnancy, birth, and motherhood as hindrances to other goals. It has established a one-for-one exchange, where young women are told they cannot achieve their dreams if they have children at an inconvenient time. Instead of providing ways to do both, it insists women must choose between the two, and when they choose motherhood, they feel as if they are missing out on something else. They have the perception that if they schedule motherhood into their lives, it will be easy, which is false. Consequently, when they do have children, their mental and physical well-being go through a state of shock, and their system is understandably overwhelmed.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Motherhood is no longer considered an achievement in itself. Society has instead conditioned young women to view it as a distraction that takes them away from other pursuits. Women should be given the support to achieve their goals outside of being a mother, but this can’t be done in a way that undermines motherhood, leaving new moms feeling alone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Postpartum depression is a real and visceral disorder, and the increased recognition of its prevalence is helpful to struggling families. However, if society changes its attitude towards mothers, and sees their contribution of raising young people as a net positive for communities, it could help quell the rising cases of this tragic mental health condition. It will provide new moms with the feeling of accomplishment that should accompany the daily work of caring for children who will be the world leaders of tomorrow. Even when the days are long, mothers will feel valuable, and society will be better for it.</span></p>
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<p>New father Brody Jenner says the thing he looks forward to the most as a new dad is parenting differently than his father, transgender-identifying reality star Caitlyn Jenner.</p>
<p>Brody, 39, said in a video released last week that he didn&#8217;t have a good relationship with Jenner, adding that his dad &#8220;wasn&#8217;t really around&#8221; for him.</p>
<p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-4" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html">“I think that what I’m most excited about is doing things differently than my father did,” Brody admitted.</p>
<p id="mntl-sc-block_1-0-6" class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html">“Growing up, I didn’t have the greatest relationship with then-Bruce,&#8221; the 39-year-old continued. &#8220;He wasn’t really around for me growing up. So, I think that just being &#8212; just doing the exact opposite, being the absolute best father I can possibly be [is what I want].&#8221;</p>
<p class="comp mntl-sc-block mntl-sc-block-html">&#8220;Hopefully I can just be the absolute best father,&#8221; Brody echoed in the video. Brody and his fiancée Tiarah &#8220;Tia&#8221; Blanco had a baby girl, whom they named Honey Raye, at the end of July.</p>
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<p>Jenner, an Olympic gold medalist, told the world in 2015 that he identifies as a woman and goes by the name Caitlyn, and no longer Bruce.</p>
<p>Jenner has six children from three now-ex-wives. Two of the children with ex Kris Jenner, Kylie and Kendall Jenner, have sparingly spoken about their father&#8217;s transition with the public.</p>
<p>Kendall, for example, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/kylie-jenner-gets-trashed-wishing-caitlyn-jenner-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in 2015, “My dad is my dad, but he’s not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her dad — that’s the last little piece of dad I’ve got.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The reeling families left behind by adults who choose a transgender lifestyle are often not discussed. Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, however, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/michael-the-trans-widow-tracy-shannon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> a Texas woman named Tracy Shannon, dubbed a “trans widow.&#8221;</p>
<p>Shannon says her family was torn apart when her husband tossed aside his family — including his three children — to fully embrace his cross-dressing sexual fetish and live a transgender lifestyle.</p>
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<p>Shannon told Knowles that her husband, whom she was married to for 15 years, declined to tell her before their nuptials that he enjoyed cross-dressing. When she found out about the fetish around four years into the marriage, Shannon made it clear she was uncomfortable with such behavior. But her husband refused to stop.</p>
<p>Most disturbingly, Shannon explained the toll her ex-husband’s choices have had on their children. She recalled their “embarrassment,” the alleged abuse they suffered at their father’s home, and revealed that there have been six suicide attempts between her three children with her ex.</p>
<p>“Between the three of them, there have been six suicide attempts of different degrees of seriousness and one hospitalization in a mental health facility for a pretty good period of time, for one,” Shannon told Knowles.</p>
<p>“And I’m being called the bigot, you know, for not wanting to be on board with all this, for not supporting it,” she added. “We used to protect children, we used to protect the family, and honor the truth.”</p>
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<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trans-widow-details-dark-side-of-ideology-in-interview-with-michael-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">‘Trans Widow’ Details Dark Side Of Ideology In Interview With Michael Knowles</a></strong></p>


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Brody Jenner Says He Wants To Parent His Child The ‘Exact Opposite’ As Dad Caitlyn Jenner

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Canadian singer </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grimes</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, who was romantically involved with </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Elon Musk</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, said she once had a conversation with him about his stance on transgender issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The 35-year-old performer recently discussed the conversation</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> during an interview with </span><a href="https://www.wired.com/story/grimes-big-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Wired</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to talk about this too much,&#8221; she said when the interviewer asked if she was “disturbed” by some of Musk’s tweets. “But take the trans thing. After that, we had a big, long conversation. I was like, ‘I want to dissect why you’re so stressed about this.’ Getting to the heart of what Elon says helps me get to the heart of what other people’s issues are.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The singer described it as “this über guy situation.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“And it came down to pretty much every way that you transition can cause fertility issues. I was like, OK, you don’t hate trans people, you hate woke culture. I get that it can be annoying, and you have concerns about the fertility thing. So let’s figure it out, because there’s a lot of fertility tech that could be innovated that would help trans people have kids, which would be great and would solve a lot of problems. He’s just on Twitter, and he’s unhappy with woke people, and the arguments happened,” Grimes added.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When asked if she was “a woke person,” Grimes replied, “Probably not. I don’t know what the term means. I think we need to change the discourse.”</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Canadian singer also discussed co-parenting two children with the Tesla founder. The former romantic partners have two children: daughter Exa Dark Sideræl Musk and son X Æ A-12. Musk has a transgender-identifying child from another relationship.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Grimes said she &#8220;learned” from Musk and described her relationship with him as &#8220;the best internship ever.” She said, &#8220;people don&#8217;t like talking about Elon, but it was incredible to be right there watching all that SpaceX stuff happen. That&#8217;s a master class in leadership and engineering and makes you understand how rare it is to have a leader of that quality.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She also professed to teach Musk &#8220;to have more fun&#8221; as she attempted &#8220;to soften him up&#8221; and &#8220;to build family culture” along with their two kids.</span></p>


Elon Musk and Grimes

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Grimes Describes 'Long Conversation' With Elon Musk About Trans Issues

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actress </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Kristen Bell</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is once again defending her decision to let her two young daughters consume non-alcoholic beer, saying it’s a family ritual that began when her kids were babies.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Bad Moms” </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">actress</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> discussed her rationale during a July 24 appearance on “The Kelly Clarkson Show.&#8221; She and husband Dax Shepard share daughters Delta, 8, and Lincoln, 9. Shepard has been open about his previous struggles with </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/alcohol"><span style="font-weight: 400;">alcohol</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> and drug addiction.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;He&#8217;s a recovering addict,&#8221; Bell said of her husband, &#8220;but he likes non-alcoholic beer, so he&#8217;d pop one open, he&#8217;d have [our oldest daughter] on his chest, and we&#8217;d walk and look at the sunset.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;As a baby, she was pawing at it, and sometimes she&#8217;d suck the rim of it. So I think it feels to her like something special, something daddy, something family,&#8221; she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The actress said the drinks contain zero percent alcohol. Bell, 43, also revealed that her daughters sometimes order non-alcoholic beer at restaurants.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been at restaurants where she&#8217;s said, &#8216;Do you have any non-alcoholic beer?&#8217; And I&#8217;m like, maybe we just keep that for home time,&#8221; Bell told Clarkson. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;But then I&#8217;m sort of like, you can judge me if you want, I&#8217;m not doing anything wrong. That&#8217;s your problem.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This isn’t the first time Bell has opened up about letting her children drink non-alcoholic beverages.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During a 2020 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuM8kECY17I">appearance</a> on the “Say Yes! With Carla Hall” podcast, the star told the same story about her daughter being interested in putting her mouth on the bottle Shepard was drinking out of. Bell also said the family had “been at restaurants and ordered” non-alcoholic beer for their kids.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I’m going to get a lot of flak for this. And let me start by saying I don’t care. I’m a great parent, I think. I’m learning every day,” she said at the time. “It’s a sentimental thing for my girls, right? It makes them feel close to their dad.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Per their </span><a href="https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidance-documents/cpg-sec-510400-dealcoholized-wine-and-malt-beverages-labeling"><span style="font-weight: 400;">website</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, the FDA “does not consider the terms ‘non-alcoholic’ and &#8216;alcohol-free&#8217; to be synonymous. The term ‘alcohol-free’ may be used only when the product contains no detectable alcohol.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The site goes on to stipulate that beverages labeled as “non-alcoholic” may “contain traces of alcohol (less than 0.5 percent alcohol by volume).”</span></p>


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Kristen Bell Defends Letting Young Daughters Drink Non-Alcoholic Beer: ‘Something Special, Something Daddy’

Kristen Bell Defends Letting Young Daughters Drink Non-Alcoholic Beer: 'Something Special, Something Daddy'

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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A recent article in </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/18/child-custody-laws-domestic-violence-homicide-rising" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Guardian</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> took a horrific incident in which an Ohio father killed his two children and inexplicably warned that a trend of states pushing for joint custody laws is somehow putting more kids in danger. As the Chair of National Parents Organization, I am concerned that such a poorly informed conclusion threatens to roll back significant progress being made toward establishing laws that ensure that more children reap the benefits of shared parenting.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The most recent progress was in the States of Florida and Missouri. Just last month, Republican Governor DeSantis signed into law House Bill 1301 making the Sunshine State the fourth state — following Kentucky, Arkansas, and West Virginia — to enact an explicit equal parenting presumption. And earlier this month, Governor Parson (R) signed Senate Bill 35 to add Missouri to the equal shared parenting states.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Guardian article begins with a horrific story of a father, Shane Elliott, who abused his wife, Kellie, and ultimately murdered their two children, Caleb and Gracie, before killing himself. The facts of this story are appalling and represent a shameful failure of Ohio’s current family court system to protect Kellie, Caleb, and Gracie. Shane’s long history of violence was well documented and Ohio’s courts should have protected the victims.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What lesson are we to take from this shocking story? The Guardian story suggests that this story, and others like it, show that it is dangerous to establish legal presumptions of equal shared parenting for divorced/separated parents. But, for multiple reasons, it’s a mystery how this conclusion is supposed to follow.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In the first place, the tragedy that befell Kellie Elliott and her children was not the result of their being in Shane’s care 50% of the time. Shane was a clear and present danger to Kellie and their children and should not have had </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">any </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">unsupervised time with the children. </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Elliott’s divorce took place in Preble County. At the time of their divorce, Preble County’s default parenting time schedule would allow the children to be in the care of a non-residential parent for 82 hours and four overnights in a two-week period during the school year, half the holidays, and extended time in the summer. It is beyond belief that the tragedy that befell Kellie and her children would have been prevented had Shane been restricted to that schedule. Of course, courts need to do a better job of protecting children from abuse. But, if a parent is abusive, that isn&#8217;t accomplished by allowing a parent unsupervised time but just ensuring that it’s less than equal parenting time. It&#8217;s accomplished by doing a better job of identifying dangerous parents and ensuring that these parents don&#8217;t have </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">any </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">unsupervised time with their children.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Second, every equal shared parenting bill I’m aware of, and most certainly every such bill that National Parents Organization has supported, explicitly and specifically creates an exception for cases of documented domestic violence. The 50/50 presumption would not apply in those cases.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Third, opponents of presumptions of equal shared parenting have presented insufficient evidence that such presumptions place victims of domestic violence or children at increased risk. Indeed, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">the evidence we do have points in exactly the opposite direction. </span><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3718190#" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Research from Spain</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> found that the regions of Spain that instituted presumptions of shared parenting saw a “large and significant decrease in intimate partner violence,” with regions without such a presumption seeing no such decline.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">U.S. states that have created legal presumptions of equal shared parenting have not experienced increases in domestic violence or child maltreatment. Just the opposite. Take Kentucky, for example. According to the Kentucky Department of Information and Technology Services, the number of domestic relations cases that were also domestic violence cases dropped from 988 in 2017 — when the state created its first equal shared parenting presumption — to 454 in 2022, a drop of more than 50%.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">What about child maltreatment? According to </span><a href="https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/cb/cm2021.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">statistics</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> from the Department of Health and Human Services, Arizona and Kentucky, both of which have strong equal shared parenting presumptions, have significantly lower and decreasing levels of child abuse and neglect than Ohio. </span><a href="https://www.sharedparenting.org/s/Shared-Parenting-and-Child-Abuse-and-Neglect-An-Ohio-Studydocx.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">An NPO study</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> comparing child maltreatment cases in Ohio found that, in counties with presumptions of equal shared parenting, cases of child abuse and neglect </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">decreased </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">significantly in comparison with other counties.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Guardian article notes that “[t]</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">he vast majority of the time, children who are the victims in homicide-suicide cases die at the hands of their fathers or male caregivers.” While this is true, it says more about the suicide element than the homicide element. We know that </span><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1732362/pdf/v057p00993.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">divorced fathers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are more than 8 times more likely to commit suicide than divorced mothers.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> With respect to the likelihood of a parent killing a child, the statistics are quite different. According to the </span><a href="https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/report/child-maltreatment-2021" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Department of Health and Human Services, in 2021</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">,</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> fathers acting alone committed 13.5% of child murders while mothers acting alone committed 29.5%. Fathers acting with a non-parent were responsible for 1.9% of child murders while mothers acting with a non-parent were responsible for 11%.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bottom line is this: our legal system needs to do a better job of identifying parents who present a danger to the other parent or to the children and protecting potential victims. That’s for sure. But you don’t accomplish that by denying children the presumption of a continuing full relationship with both fit and loving parents just because the parents are no longer living together.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">So, why is National Parents Organization “pushing for joint custody laws”? Because </span><a href="https://www.sharedparenting.org/articles" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">forty years of research</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> has shown that, in the vast majority of cases, it’s best for children. It’s also best for both parents to ensure that neither is overburdened with parental duties nor sidelined in the children’s lives. We do not protect potential victims of violence by routinely denying children a full and equal relationship with both of their fit and loving parents. In the absence of evidence of family violence, equal shared parenting should be the starting point and the presumptive parenting arrangement when parents are separated.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Don Hubin</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> is the Chair of <a href="https://www.sharedparenting.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Parents Organization</a>, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at The Ohio State University, and Founding Director Emeritus of the OSU Center for Ethics and Human Values.</span></em></p>
<p><em>The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.</em></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actor </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-de-niro"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert De Niro</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">’s girlfriend, Tiffany Chen, recently described a complication she experienced after delivering the couple’s baby.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Niro made </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">headlines</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> months ago for becoming a father for the seventh time at the age of 79. Now Chen is discussing what happened after she delivered their daughter, Gia Virginia. She </span><a href="https://people.com/tiffany-chen-lost-all-facial-functions-after-giving-birth-daughter-robert-de-niro-7560267"><span style="font-weight: 400;">told</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> CBS Mornings that she experienced Bell’s palsy, which causes facial paralysis, following the baby&#8217;s birth.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bell&#8217;s palsy affects about 40,000 people in the U.S. each year, <a href="https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/bells-palsy">according</a> to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Pregnancy and childbirth are two risk factors for developing the condition.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;When I went home, I started to feel like &#8230; my tongue felt strange,&#8221; </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> told the outlet. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It felt a little tingly, just starting to get a little bit numb. And then I realized my face just felt weird. I didn&#8217;t know what the feeling was that I was having. It felt weird.&#8221; </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chen, 45, went on to discuss how her condition worsened over time.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;When I got home, it was like everything was starting to just fall down on itself. Like, my face was melting on itself,&#8221; Chen explained. &#8220;And then a week after giving birth, that was when it all hit. And I called my doctor, and I &#8230; was trying to eat.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She said, &#8220;I went to put a fork of food in my mouth and everything came out. I couldn&#8217;t eat. And then I was starting to slur. So I said, &#8216;There&#8217;s something really going on here.'&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Eventually, things got bad enough that the martial arts professional was told to go to the ER immediately. &#8220;I lost all facial function the minute I got into the hospital,&#8221; she said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Niro and Chen were rumored to be romantic partners for years before they announced the birth of their daughter. The “Meet the Parents” star </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/robert-de-niro-79-announces-birth-of-7th-child"><span style="font-weight: 400;">revealed</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> that Chen had given birth while he was promoting the film, “About My Father.” </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I mean, there’s no way around it with kids. I don’t like to have to lay down the law and stuff like that. But, [sometimes] you just have no choice,” De Niro said at the time. “And any parent, I think, would say the same thing. You always want to do the right thing by the children and give them the benefit of the doubt but sometimes you can’t.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The interviewer asked about the actor’s six children, which is when De Niro corrected him by saying, “Seven, actually.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Niro’s oldest daughter Drena is 51. </span></p>


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<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-star-emily-blunt-says-she-doesnt-want-her-kids-to-follow-in-her-footsteps" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emily Blunt</a> said she just &#8220;felt&#8221; in her bones that taking a year off from acting was the best decision for her family.</p>
<p>During the 40-year-old actress&#8217; <a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/emily-blunt-acting-hiatus-oppenheimer-interview-1235533294/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appearance</a> on iHeart&#8217;s &#8220;Table for Two with Bruce Bozzi&#8221; <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-table-for-two-105373224/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a>, Blunt talked about not working so she could spend time with her kids while they&#8217;re still young. The actress and husband actor, John Krasinski, tied the knot in 2010 and share two daughters, ages 9 and 7.</p>
<p>&#8220;This year, I&#8217;m not working,&#8221; Blunt told the host. &#8220;I worked quite a bit last year and my oldest baby is 9, so we&#8217;re in the last year of single digits.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;And I just feel [like] there are cornerstones to their day that are so important when they&#8217;re little,&#8221; she added.<br />
&#8220;And it&#8217;s, &#8216;Will you wake me up? Will you take me to school? Will you pick me up? Will you put me to bed?&#8217; And I just need to be there for all of them for a good stretch. And I just felt that in my bones.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">Emily Blunt is sharing the reasons behind her acting break in 2023 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/THRNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#THRNews</a> <a href="https://t.co/NBpgJdSmUS">pic.twitter.com/NBpgJdSmUS</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) <a href="https://twitter.com/THR/status/1679166225405059074?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
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<p>In June, the &#8220;Mary Poppins&#8221; star made it clear she does not want her daughters to follow in her footsteps into the entertainment field.</p>
<p>&#8220;My toes curl when people tell me, &#8216;My daughter wants to be an actress,'&#8221; Blunt told <a href="https://www.harpersbazaar.com/uk/culture/entertainment/a44036007/emily-blunt-july-interview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harper&#8217;s Bazaar U.K. magazine</a>. &#8220;I want to say, &#8216;don&#8217;t do it.'&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Because it&#8217;s a hard industry and it can be very disappointing,&#8221; she added. &#8220;A lot of people tell you not to take things personally — but it&#8217;s completely personal, especially when you&#8217;re being judged on how you look. So you just have to endure that side of things.&#8221;</p>
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<p>The &#8220;Edge of Tomorrow&#8221; actress said her children don&#8217;t see her as a movie star but as their mother.</p>
<p>&#8220;When I see myself up on a billboard, I have this complete dissociation with it,&#8221; Blunt said. &#8220;And I can see my children doing the same – they might say, oh, there&#8217;s Mama, but it&#8217;s not exciting for them. What&#8217;s exciting for them is when I can pick them up from school and take them swimming.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hollywood-star-emily-blunt-says-she-doesnt-want-her-kids-to-follow-in-her-footsteps" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hollywood Star Emily Blunt Says She Doesn&#8217;t Want Her Kids To Follow In Her Footsteps</a></strong></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actor </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bradley Cooper</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> discussed how his father’s death impacted his outlook on life and his parenting perspective. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Guardians of the Galaxy” </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/entertainment"><span style="font-weight: 400;">actor</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> made the comments during an upcoming episode of “Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge,” per </span><a href="https://people.com/bradley-cooper-gets-candid-about-fatherhood-daughter-lea-7557223"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Yeah, I wish my dad was around to enjoy more of it, but we all recognize how lucky we&#8217;ve been,&#8221; Cooper said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Yeah, that&#8217;s a hard thing, isn&#8217;t it?&#8221; Bear Grylls replied. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It was a blessing though,&#8221; Cooper said. &#8220;He gave me a huge gift; he died in my arms. To see that kind of factual example of mortality.&#8221; The actor had previously discussed his father’s death from lung cancer in 2011. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Did that change how you look at things?&#8221; Grylls asked.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;Oh yeah. Some ways for the worst,&#8221; the 48-year-old </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/parenting"><span style="font-weight: 400;">father of one</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> said. &#8220;I definitely had a nihilistic attitude after, for a little bit. Just like, wow I&#8217;m gonna die. It was not great for a little bit until I realized I had to just embrace who I actually am and try to find peace with that. And then it sorta evened out.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cooper shares a 6-year-old daughter, Lea, with his ex-girlfriend Irina Shayk.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Next, Grylls asked how the actor approaches fatherhood now. &#8220;You&#8217;ve had that whole journey with your dad and now you&#8217;re a dad,&#8221; the host said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I mean you learn from your predecessor&#8217;s mistakes and I&#8217;ll make tons that hopefully Lea will learn from and then being rigorous with myself to grow,&#8221; Cooper replied. &#8220;To help unburden her with any of my bulls***.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I guess having a child, and having a family of my own — which is a miracle and something I&#8217;ve always dreamt of — has opened me up even more, I guess, to the day, and to be present,&#8221; he continued.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The “Hangover” actor also said in 2021 that he rejected the term “co-parenting” to describe how he and his ex raise their daughter. &#8220;I never understood the term co-parenting. [&#8230;] Co-parenting is parenting.&#8221;</span></p>


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Bradley Cooper Discusses Approach To Fatherhood: ‘Learn From Your Predecessor’s Mistakes’

Bradley Cooper Discusses Approach To Fatherhood: 'Learn From Your Predecessor's Mistakes'

<p><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/white-house" target="_blank" rel="noopener">White House</a> aides are reportedly being lied to in strategy meetings in an apparent attempt to cover up the president’s seventh grandchild, an illegitimate child fathered by the president’s son, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/hunter-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hunter.</a></p>
<p>As President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> readies for his re-election campaign, his team is worried that a four-year-old child living in Arkansas could tarnish the president’s choreographed image as a devoted family man. The president has been a forceful supporter of Hunter amid allegations of corruption and influence-peddling that evidence suggests could also involve the president.</p>
<p>Despite his strong devotion to Hunter, the president has failed to meet, speak with, or even publicly acknowledge his four-year-old granddaughter living in Arkansas, according to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/01/us/politics/hunter-biden-daughter-arkansas.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Times</a>. The girl, named Navy Joan, is reportedly the product of a sordid romance between Hunter and Lunden Roberts that took place soon after Hunter’s relationship with his deceased brother’s widow, Hallie, ended.</p>
<p>The president’s team is reportedly pushing a public relations strategy that involves never recognizing Navy Joan as part of the Biden family. White House aides are reportedly being told in strategy sessions that the president only has six grandchildren, not seven, according to the Times.</p>
<p>The report comes after the president and the White House have repeatedly failed to acknowledge Navy Joan. In May, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused to answer questions about the child.</p>
<p>“I wanted to ask about the trial going on in Arkansas with Hunter Biden and the child support. Are the president and first lady monitoring that? And how come they haven’t acknowledged the seventh grandchild?” a reporter asked the press secretary, referring to a years-long child support payment battle that was settled last week.</p>
<p>Jean-Pierre <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/karine-jean-pierre-stonewalls-questions-on-presidents-unacknowledged-arkansas-grandchild" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>: “I’m not going to speak to that from here.”</p>
<p>Biden has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-falsely-claims-he-has-six-grandchildren-leaves-off-hunters-arkansas-daughter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">repeatedly</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-biden-falsely-claims-to-have-four-granddaughters-ignoring-hunters-illegitimate-child" target="_blank" rel="noopener">failed</a> to acknowledge his seventh grandchild in public comments about his family, typically revolving around his love and devotion to them.</p>
<p>“The best part of it all, I have six grandchildren, and I’m crazy about them. I speak to them every single day,” Biden said at a White House event in April. “Not a joke,” he added.</p>
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<p>Hunter and Navy Joan’s mother, Lunden Roberts, settled a legal battle over Hunter’s child support payments on Thursday. Hunter had been paying Roberts $20,000 a month in child support, and the Biden scion had sought to have that amount reduced, pleading that he could not afford it.</p>
<p>Roberts and Hunter agreed to decrease the amount to $ 5,000 a month. Roberts also gave up a push to allow Navy Joan to take on the Biden family name, something that Hunter had fought against. Navy Joan will <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/02/hunter-bidens-daughter-paintings-child-support/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">receive</a> some of Hunter’s amateur artwork, which the 4-year-old will be able to pick out herself. Hunter’s artwork has sold at auction for as much as $500,000. The buyers’ identities are unknown.</p>
<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.</p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Actor </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/robert-de-niro"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Robert De Niro’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> 19-year-old grandson, Leandro, has died, according to his mother Drena.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The </span><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities"><span style="font-weight: 400;">actor’s</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> daughter posted a tribute to her late son on her Instagram page on Sunday. “My beautiful sweet angel,” the 51-year-old filmmaker began. “I have loved you beyond words or description from the moment I felt you in my belly.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You have been my joy my heart and all that was ever pure and real in my life,” Drena wrote. “I wish I was with you right now. I wish I was with you. I don’t know how to live without you.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Niro’s daughter said she plans to “spread the love and light” going forward because of Leandro’s impact on her life.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You were so deeply loved and appreciated and I wish that love alone could have saved you. I’m so sorry my baby. Rest in Peace and Eternal Paradise my darling boy,” she concluded. Drena tagged Leandro’s father, sculptor Carlos Mare, in her social media update. She did not provide any details on her son’s cause of death. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Niro did not post anything publicly about his grandson as of Monday morning.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Drena is De Niro’s oldest child. The “Meet the Parents” star adopted her in 1976 when he married her mother, Diahnne Abbott, per <a href="https://pagesix.com/2023/07/03/robert-de-niros-grandson-leandro-is-dead-at-19-reveals-mom-drena/">Page Six</a>. Drena took on the last name De Niro at the time. Abbott and the Oscar winner divorced in 1988.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">De Niro, 79, has seven children total, including a newborn daughter. He and girlfriend Tiffany Chen welcomed Gia Virginia Chen De Niro on April 6 of this year. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to have a new one every year,&#8221; the actor <a href="https://www.hellomagazine.com/healthandbeauty/mother-and-baby/494455/robert-de-niro-talks-baby-number-eight-after-welcoming-seventh-child/">joked</a> about becoming a father again, saying the experience has reenergized him. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;It feels great, yeah,&#8221; he told Hoda Kotb on Today during a June interview.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8220;I have certain awareness — when you&#8217;re older you have awareness of certain things in life, dynamics, everything, family dynamics,” De Niro said. &#8220;You can&#8217;t avoid learning certain things and how you can deal with those and manage them and this and that, the usual. It&#8217;s amazing, but I&#8217;m very happy about it.&#8221;</span></p>


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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week, Republicans in the House of Representatives revealed the testimony of an IRS whistleblower who worked on the Hunter Biden investigation. That whistleblower had two revelations to present. First, he said that the federal prosecutor overseeing Hunter’s case told at least six witnesses that he had been blocked by Attorney General Merrick Garland from special counsel status — status that would allow him a free hand in fully investigating Hunter. Second, the whistleblower presented a WhatsApp message between Hunter Biden and a Chinese executive shaking down the executive for cash by leveraging Joe Biden’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">presence in the room</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I am sitting here with my father,” Hunter texted, “and we would like to understand why the commitment made has not been fulfilled. Tell the director that I would like to resolve this now before it gets out of hand, and now means tonight. And, Z, if I get a call or text from anyone involved in this other than you, Zhang, or the chairman, I will make certain that between the man sitting next to me and every person he knows and my ability to forever hold a grudge that you will regret not following my direction. I am sitting here waiting for the call with my father.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This was not the first piece of evidence clearly linking Joe to Hunter’s influence peddling operation. Hunter’s laptop infamously contained a message from one of Hunter’s business partners, James Gilliar, suggesting that 10 percent of a deal with CEFC China Energy Co. be “held by H for the big guy.” Gilliar, in other texts, has also referred to Joe Biden as “the big guy.” And Hunter himself complained in text messages to his daughter, Naomi, “I hope you all can do what I did and pay for everything for this entire family for 30 years. It’s really hard. But don’t worry, unlike pop, I won’t make you give me half your salary.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joe Biden, for the little it’s worth, has claimed to know nothing about Hunter’s business activities. That’s absolutely uncredible, considering that Joe squired Hunter around on Air Force Two, including to China — where Hunter signed lucrative deals — and that Hunter’s business partner Tony Bobulinksi alleges he met personally with Joe Biden over business issues.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The credulous reaction to this obvious trail of corruption from many in the media has been incredible to behold. The going line these days in Biden-allied media is that Joe’s suspected influence peddling operation and pressure on his Attorney General to dump the Hunter investigation isn’t corruption — it’s </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">actually</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;"> a sign of his magnificent parental love. In the words of </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">The New York Times</span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">’ Nicholas Kristof, “The real meaning of the Hunter Biden saga, as I see it, isn’t about presidential corruption, but is about how widespread addiction is — and about how a determined parent with unconditional love can sometimes reel a child back … That can give others hope.”</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meanwhile, this loving father isn’t exactly a loving grandfather when it comes to Hunter’s illegitimate child, Navy Joan. The same week Hunter was let off the hook by Biden’s Department of Justice, Biden signed a child support agreement with former stripper Lunden Roberts in which Roberts accepted a deal including a massive reduction in child support </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">and </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">a prohibition on Navy Joan using the Biden family name. Joe himself refuses to acknowledge the existence of Navy Joan. Yes, that famed Biden name is apparently reserved for raising cash in Ukraine and China; those who are actually sired by Hunter Biden in untoward circumstances are disowned by the upstanding Biden family.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joe surely loves Hunter. But that love is twisted. Hunter is a 53-year-old wreck of a human being with a trail of abuses of other human beings behind him. Joe may have helped curb Hunter’s addiction, but he has also Joe has apparently used his son as a tool, and continues to use him as a crutch – and meanwhile, Joe has enabled Hunter throughout his adult life, humoring his egregiously evil behavior. The story here, then, is twofold: political corruption, and the corruption of familial love into something much uglier.</span></p>


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