According to Wikipedia, Travis Henry has now had at least eleven children by ten women:
I suspect that these women don’t think that they are getting into some kind of good financial deal by having his children. First, I suspect that some of them had the children before he began playing professional football and after he left professional football, so they would know that he didn’t have much money. Second, the idea that a woman could live easily on child support from a rich father is wrong. The amount that he is paying each woman per year is somewhere between $10,000 and $20,000. This means that a single woman with an acceptable job would go from being a single woman with enough to scrape by on to being a single woman with one child with enough to scrape by on, assuming that she keeps her job.
While he was not thinking at all??? If you you seriously think the last 5-6 women that hooked up with him did so just for money and he fell for that…then they deserve all the money they got.
Someone who is TOO stupid to keep his dick in a condom doesn’t desrve to be a daddy but probably makes a pretty good cash cow for his many offspring.
Maybe it’s just me, but can you imagine, 100 years from now, one of TH’s great-grandchildren coming up with the notion of running down his or her family tree?
How long before it quit looking like a tree and more like a spaghetti factory?
I mean, genealogy’s a chore even when the common ancestor only had five offspring by the same mother.
I suspect you’re as wrong as wrong can be. Before he began playing professional football, he was clearly a star who was going to get a big payday in the NFL. And it doesn’t matter what the current situation is, you hear “star NFL running back,” you think money.
How many women who have gotten pregnant by a NFL (or NBA or MLB or NHL) player do you personally know? Why should I consider you to be an expert on what they are thinking? Do you seriously think you can persuade me by pure assertion with no facts to back your assertions up? You’ve been on the SDMB long enough to know that trying to intimidate me by hectoring me with your beliefs don’t work.
How many children did each of the women he impregnated have before him? I’m not saying his judgment was good, I mean I even called him a slut, just that they had a track record to go by with his past. “Hey, this guy knocks up lots of broads then moves on, maybe I should stay away.” I mean, would you (assuming you’re a woman, if not just pretend for a second) go out with a guy with enough babymammas to field a baseball team?
Maybe, but that doesn’t mean these ladies weren’t still thinking it.
My thoughts, too. How many notable, working actresses have large families, anyway? When it seems like casting agents no longer look at anything but a headshot or Maxim spread, and leaving someone else to do the bulk of the parenting can make you look like a bitch (either because ‘stranger’ nannies are doing it, or you’re emasculating your partner), kids and c-section scars can be a huge liability.