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Originally Posted by 12clicks
If you have children you pour everything you have into them. Your knowledge, your wealth, your everything. If not, you’re societal trash. Full stop.
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I agree somewhat, but it's not like his kids ever missed any meals or have been homeless.
I haven't seen my dad since I was 4 year old. He never paid child support and owes the third-highest amount in the state I grew up in. This is why I am who I am.
According to my mother, my father was brilliant. I was born at Eglin AFB in Florida while he was stationed there. From Eglin, he went to the Pentagon in Washington DC during mid-1980s, where he reached the rank of Captain as a Systems Analyst, working on missile guidance systems.
My favorite movie as a kid was Top Gun and I wanted to serve in the military as a fighter pilot. My parents divorced when I was 4 in 1986-87. My mother says the reason for their divorce was because of my father's irresponsible spending and wanting to baptize my younger brother as Mormon, as she was Catholic.
There was a custody battle for us three kids (I am the middle child) and naturally my mother won custody.
From there we left to Louisiana where my mother's parents were. My mother never re-married and only dated a couple other men. My father is the only man my mother has been with sexually, even to this day as she is 68 years old now. My mother has extremely high morals and is obsessively honest. It is said that men look for a woman like their mothers and this is probably why I have such high standards for a wife.
The story goes much deeper, but I won't get into that now.
I lived in Southeast Louisiana for the next 30 years. My biggest regret is not leaving sooner, but I've shaken off the bad habits I've picked up from there and I'm making up for lost time by living a clean, healthy lifestyle now.
Whenever people complained about about their fathers, I always laughed it off or dismissed it because I felt at least he was in their lives and gave them at least some financial support.
Having that experience growing up is why I am so careful about who I date and study the laws and statistics of marriage, divorce and child support. If I would have gotten a woman pregnant, all my dreams would be over because my biggest fear in life is being a bad father.
Anyway.. I think Elon is the greatest entrepreneur and humanitarian alive today, even possibly in human history.