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    Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    Quote Originally Posted by Raven Nurse View Post
    I also have a minor in Psychology, and both of your point of views are are common, although misguided, and most often had by well to do (wealthy/ republicans) that last part is my opinion. Again, we are not writing about society, this thread is about Brady and other pro players. So none of your points are valid!
    I think at various points during the off season we should select candidates for, then nominate, then vote for the absolute most moronic, clueless, offensive, goofy post for the entire year.

    Let's start now. :)
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  2. Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    #1, I lump celebs in with athletes cause athletes are celebs. #2, there are a million I could have named. Brown just happened to pop into my head.lol I could named Willis who is being sued by 3 woman.

    A year or 2 back SI did an in depth investigation and story on this very topic. Look it up. Woman follow NBA players around from city to City trying to get pregnant on purpose. Then they sue. Just ask Magic what he thinks of that life style.





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    Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    Sounds like a cheap date....LOL
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    Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    Maybe some are speaking out because of their religous beliefs and that's unfortunate that people will judge others because of those beliefs. I have a feeling Tom Brady is doing what's right for himself and for his familes. if we hear that he is a two time bum then we can start busting his chops, until then let take a deep breath and relax...we are talking about an upstanding citzen.
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    Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    People are poor because they behave poorly, they do not behave poorly because they are poor.

    That is your opinion, and not a truth. it would be better if you would state it as such.


    There are many theories as to why poverty exists; a very conservative viewpoint points to individual accountability, as you did above.


    While that may be true in *some* cases, that is a gross overgeneralization, and a huge overstatement. There are also many structural causes of poverty which many European and Asian nations have successfully combatted with effective policies. Until the US even tries such methods, claiming the source of all poverty to be based on a "culture of poverty" or certain "sins of the poor" is ignorant at best.


    Read James Morone's "Hellfire Nation" for a great read and a good account of how America and Americans try to use "us v. them" type of mentalities to justify behavior towards groups including poor people, immigrants, african americans, homosexuals, women, etc


    As for Tom Brady, he's got two attractive, RICH women pregnant. What the problem here?


    Those kids will be provided for.


    Anything other worries than that, and you're really getting into the guy's private life.
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  6. Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    <<< There are also many structural causes of poverty which many European and Asian nations have successfully combatted with effective policies. Until the US even tries such methods, claiming the source of all poverty to be based on a "culture of poverty" or certain "sins of the poor" is ignorant at best.

    Are you trying to say Europe and Asia deal with poverty better then the United States? If so, what policies are you referring to? Because I don't think it's an accurate statement. Have you seen the recent unemployment figures for Europe lately? Just last year, France for example had massive riots in their projects.

    As for Brady- Being rich doesn't let him off the hook. It's that kind of attitude that makes sports figures think they can get away with murder. If you or someone close to you got 2 different women pregnant at the same time, I'm pretty sure you might have a small problem with it.

    It is the 'at same time' thing that makes this look bad.





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    Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    I also have a minor in Psychology, and both of your point of views are are common, although misguided, and most often had by well to do (wealthy/ republicans) that last part is my opinion. Again, we are not writing about society, this thread is about Brady and other pro players. So none of your points are valid!
    Really, so dispel my points. I am not wealthy and I am a Libertarian.

    The facts are, kids who are raised without a father in the house are more likely to have the problems I have listed and more. Your minor in psychology isn't challenging that fact with real statistics.

    People are poor because they behave poorly, they do not behave poorly because they are poor.
    That is your opinion, and not a truth. it would be better if you would state it as such.
    No, it's the truth. The Economist, hardly a right-wing publication, did a study and found the following in regard to poverty.
    99.5% of the people in poverty who:
    a. graduate high school
    b. get a job and keep it
    c. get married and stay married
    will get out of poverty. 199 out of 200. That's a pretty important statistic. If you are in poverty and make these good choices and avoid the opposing poor choices (not getting a job, dropping out, having children out of wedlock) you are almost guaranteed to get out of poverty. Hence, by not behaving poorly you will no longer be poor. By behaving poorly and not doing these simple things you will be poor.

    Poor choices cause poverty, not the other way around. If you get your free education, get ANY job and keep it until you find a better one, and get married and stay married. These aren't difficult things, they are simply good choices.

    There are many theories as to why poverty exists ...
    That's not a theory, those are facts. Make good choices, get out of poverty 99.5% of the time.

    Read James Morone's "Hellfire Nation" for a great read and a good account of how America and Americans try to use "us v. them" type of mentalities to justify behavior towards groups including poor people, immigrants, african americans, homosexuals, women, etc
    That has absolutely no bearing at all here. I am not trying to justify any behavior. You are, you are trying to justify the poor choices that keep people in poverty. You know, if you made these people aware of these simple things perhaps they might actually employ good choices. Instead, we get the hand-wringing excuse makers and Jesse Jackson race baiters in that tell these poor folks they can't possibly get out. Well, if you told me that long enough I would probably give up and smoke dope all day too.

    And those statistics, they apply to whites, blacks, whoever, just the same. There is absolutely no race component to it, whites who drop out, have children out of wedlock and/or don't get steady work are just as likely to get into or remain in poverty. Bringing race into it only causes confusion and is a race hustler tactic.

    The problem with rich people behaving like this is that they are role models for the masses who lap up this nonsense on E!, Entertainment Tonight, Inside Edition, etc. XYZ is pumping out kids out of wedlock so it must be fine.

    Our culture is flying down the shitter.

    And crazyraven, it has nothing to do with my religion. If you aren't religious and believe taboos come from men and not God, fine, these taboos were still set up by men for a reason. You don't think they wanted to bag every broad they could without impunity? Well, they did, but they married all the women they had children with and were fathers to those children because they discovered thousands of years ago that in fact this was the best way to raise them.

    You can deny that all you want for benefit of your next conquest and orgasm, but it doesn't change the facts. Children without fathers are a bane to society.

    As for Tom Brady, he's got two attractive, RICH women pregnant. What the problem here?

    Those kids will be provided for.
    They'll be provided for monetarily. But without the daily influence of a man in the household they will be more likely to become drug addicts, criminals, die young, get STDs, have children as teenagers, etc.

    http://www.children-ourinvestment.or...utFathers.html

    63% of youth suicides are from fatherless homes (US Dept. Of Health/Census) – 5 times the average.

    90% of all homeless and runaway children are from fatherless homes – 32 times the average.

    85% of all children who show behavior disorders come from fatherless homes – 20 times the average. (Center for Disease Control)

    80% of rapists with anger problems come from fatherless homes --14 times the average. (Justice & Behavior, Vol 14, p. 403-26)

    71% of all high school dropouts come from fatherless homes – 9 times the average. (National Principals Association Report)

    75% of all adolescent patients in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes – 10 times the average. (Rainbows for All God’s Children)

    70% of youths in state-operated institutions come from fatherless homes – 9 times the average. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Sept. 1988)

    85% of all youths in prison come from fatherless homes – 20 times the average.
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    Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    http://www.fathers.com/research/consequences.html

    http://www.fathers.com/help/importance.html

    http://www.unicef.org/pon96/inabsent.htm
    Check out those stats, somebody mentioned Europe. They are a bit better about being fathers in the home than Americans are.

    Shall I go on? How many links do you want? Oh, and also note, it doesn't say it only applies to poor kids or wealthy kids are exempt.





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    Greg is absolutely correct. I don't think he needs any help here.





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    Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    Greg knows what he is talking about. He talks like a parent who knows about responsibility, not a man-child who thinks he can screw anyone he wants and if there is an "oops" pull out a checkbook and make it go away at worst or at best get away with it.

    He's also right that our culture is going down the shitter. We need more of the 1950s values in this country.


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    Re: Tom Brady is father to 2 children??

    You can deny that all you want for benefit of your next conquest and orgasm, but it doesn't change the facts. Children without fathers are a bane to society.
    This is the second mention of orgasm toward me. Honestly I haven;t conveyed anything about my jiz? Why do you keep talking about it? WTF? I dont understand. I have been talking about Tom Brady Being a father and supporting the children He has created and your talking about my conquests and love milk. :grbac:
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    Are you trying to say Europe and Asia deal with poverty better then the United States? If so, what policies are you referring to? Because I don't think it's an accurate statement. Have you seen the recent unemployment figures for Europe lately?

    America is by far the wealthiest nation in the world at this point, yet our life expectancy for males is 30th of industrialized nations. Thats what I'm talking about; when you go at issues like poverty the are structural factors that the United States doesn't try to deal with because of its liberal (that's small "L" liberal, not liberal as its used in the media) founding and culture.


    Structural factors like lack of affordable housing, lack of healthcare, globalization and the destruction of American industry, all contribute to poverty; and yes, I believe many asian and european nations have dealt better with such issues and in THOSE nations, you have a stronger argument for individual accountability.


    I'm not writing off anyone's libertarian point of views. I'm a political science graduate student; my roomate is a libertarian, but even he knows better than to state libertarian/conservative viewpoints as "fact". Its a point of view that can be suported, but on the whole it isn't "fact". There is nothing more frustrating than a liberal, libertarian, or conservative that tries to use a viewpoint as fact.


    Vis a Vis the economist, he and I are subscribed to that, and if you claim it has no slant . . . haha i'll just politely say BS. Being that I do political science for a living, lets just say almost all studies, think-tanks, etc have a slant. Objective fact in that sense is always a myth. look at who funds research, what were the research parameters, where is there selection bias on the data, is someone fudging the data by ignoring heteroskedaticity or by ignoring relevant variables . . . i could go on


    In terms of Tom Brady, how much of a father he is or will be will determine how his kids turn out. Thats something, I think, that can be very independent of marriage as it currently exists as an institution.


    There are people right now who are married and in holy matrimony who are terrible fathers and terrible parents. And there are people who aren't married who play better roles as father figures than some men who are married.


    If you have a productive marriage and was a good parent, more power to you. My parents, 66 and 62, are still married and I attribute that to how i turned out; but it was more they way they parented than the mere fact that they are together and was positive.


    Thing is, Greg, I respect your opinions and agree that most families are better off when the mother and father are man and wife, etc


    HOWEVER, stating that as a fact is an overstatement that people are prone to. There are families that would be better off if the parents were divorced rather than doing a half assed job parenting because they spend most of their energies trying not to kill their mate.


    In terms for a longing to go back to the society and culture of the 1940's or in general of an early american age, a good read is Alan Ehrenhalt's "Lost City"; he tries to make such an argument, but the problem with that are apparent.


    In any case, stating a given viewpoint as fact because a given journal / magazine / article supports it . . . forgive me if I'm skeptical.


    Making an argument about pro-athletes doing less than stellar jobs as parents . . . thats an argument worth making. So long as you don't state your argument as "fact"


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