You’re going to* force* a soon to be 16 year old to stay with you? Good luck with that!
I get that being a celebrity with a gazillion dollars can make you disconnected, but I’m surprised no friend has pulled her aside and said “this is a very bad, not so good, really awful idea”.
By the time kids are in their mid teens forcing them to be with one parent or another against their will is just folly and is a sure method for ensuing long term enmity.
Look, I have no use for Madonna, but… all kinds of weird, painful and embarrassing things go on in any family, and hers is no exception. I sure don’t take any delight in seeing her shunned by her son.
I mean, do I know for certain my son won’t go through a hating Dad phase in a few years?
But forcing the issue is pretty much the best way to make it worse. Hell, I’m surprised the judge even did it. They sure didn’t get involved with my cousins when they didn’t want to go with their mom.
And they did ultimately wind up with a better relationship with her. It just took a few years.
Madonna is missing a few screws…for a while, she was married to a 21 year old Brazilian male model (Jesus Luiz). Imagine-marrying a man, and you are old enough to be his grandmother. Weird.
I think you’ll find no shortage of people seeing a young girl with rich old guy and thinking “Ewww.” Heff made it look kind of cool - but that’s more of a rare exception.
I know whenever I see, say, a Cheeseburger picture of a fat older guy with a young hottie, the comments are most unlikely to be any flavour of “Aww, true love transcends mere age difference”. :dubious:
I’ve been of the opinion for decades that this woman doesn’t have have a genuine, legitimate friend in the world. She seems to have some friendly acquaintances based mostly upon shared celebrity wealth and experiences (Sting’s wife Trudie Styler for example, but Madonna strikes me as far too self-centered, wilful and demanding to have any real friends in the way most of us think of as friends.
It’s a shame that this private custody battle has to play out for the world to see. It’s hard enough on kids whose parents cannot get along, without the added pressure of the world knowing and judging.
Yeah, I wouldn’t really recommend trying to get pregnant at 13, even if you’re technically fertile. Just because you have periods doesn’t mean everything else in your body is ready to carry a pregnancy to term.
Let’s stick with “old enough to easily be his mother.”