Mel Gibson dials it up to 11 with new telephone recording.

Yeah, really. I mean, the man is a saint. Then that nasty younger woman made him leave his wife and kids and have a baby with her. Then she won’t blow him. I mean she totally deserved to have her teeth knocked out.

Poor, poor Mel.

The scenario you draw could only make sense if you can apply it to his relationship with his first wife.

Or until the mother has secured her monthly income.

I put it to you that that doesn’t make any sense.

Wait, what? No snark intended, I’m honestly confused (blonde) here. Are you saying that unless he treated his first (and only!) wife this way, you don’t believe he could treat his mistress this way?

Nah, this is more of a species level thing. If it was societal there could be hope for a change. It’s not even a man thing either. Women love to do this to each other too.

Er, what? Just focusing on your hypotheticals as a general case, the best way to make an otherwise sane and well adjusted man want to kill you is to either ruin him financially or cheat on him. Let alone knocking a couple of teeth out. Not a smart idea, but very understandable. Which is the opposite of what I’m getting from Mel. This guy’s butter slid off his toast.

Supporting MOST of your kids is not the metric. I support ALL my kids, and Ive never punched their mother in the face.

Sooo, you’re saying if I cheat on my husband, he’s within his rights to punch me in the face while I’m holding our baby and knock my teeth out?

Not the mother, the child.

  1. He did not leave his wife for Oksana

  2. He did not knock out any teeth.

Did you see the picture alleging the incident ? She was smiling and no hint at all of soft tissue bruising adjacent to her mouth or on her face, and merely a chipped tooth that had to be there before because a veneer was dislodged.

Yeah, but you are real stingy compared to Mel. Gee Dio do you even have a real job ?

Suppose Mel gets away with it by moving to Australia and sends Oksana a check for $1000.00 every month, would you agree that it would constitute support ?

Cheques are written to the mother.

Oh, well that makes all the difference in the world. he didn’t knock her teeth out, he only broke one. :rolleyes:

HE PUNCHED HER IN THE FACE.

Irrelevant. It’s still the child’s money, not the mother’s.

How so? Stingy means holding back. I’m not holding back. Mel seems to want to, though.

I also give my kids love and attention and sobriety and respect for their mother.

Of course.

Not even close.

Did you see that bitch? She didn’t wear black for the socially accepted period of time! She may have even gone dancing like the floozy she is during this period of grief! Let’s see. Someone needs to take a picture of your teeth. How does one show their teeth. . .if only there was a normal muscle reflex that took care of this. … hmmmm
Does it matter at all that her dentist has confirmed that the injuries he saw and treated were consistent with someone being struck in the head? Na. That bitch probably blew him before the jacuzzi so he’d lie for her. Gold digging cunt.

Not sufficient support. Again: celebrity children require a slightly hire level of care than non celebrity children. This includes security, private schools, etc.

How do you know. Why was she wearing a veneer?

He admitted to punching her on tape. That he hit her is not in question. Trying to minimize or handwave the injuries is a classic abuser tactic, by the way.

Because he admitted it.

Who gives a fuck? How is it relevant?

Who knows. Well, her dentist does and as I previously linked, he says she got hit in the head twice and got her teeth fucked up. I’m going to trust him on this one.

I will admit that when I was a lot younger I thought the mothers of celebrity children made out like bandits for no reason.

I forget what Will Smith ended up paying in child support for his oldest child, but I remember telling my father how wrong I thought it was because it wasn’t her out there working for the money he made.

He said something like “Yeah, that’s true. Still, if the boy goes to Dad’s house and he’s got a mansion and a pool and all the toys he wants and then he has to go home to Mom’s little condo where he just has to live like a “normal” boy, who do you think will have the advantage over him?”

I had to admit that he was right and I’d never thought of it that way before. Hey, when I was a kid I liked having stuff. What kid wouldn’t? Why should the child live like a prince at one house and then go home to much, much less.

Of course when parents divorce (or are never married) you can’t make everything just like how it would be if the parents lived together happily. To me, child support is established to let the child live at least FINANCIALLY how he or she would if the parents were still pooling their money together as a family.