Former NFL player Cam Newton is three children shy of having his very own starting line-up on the field.
Recently, the father-of-eight discussed his desire for more children, in spite of not being ready for marriage and voicing concerns about divorce on his podcast, Funky Friday.
Sharing the mic with psychologist and life coach Dr. Cheyenne Bryant, Bryant challenged the famous father saying that he is, creating “broken homes.”
The conversation kicked-into high gear when Dr. Bryant asked Newton if he wanted more children to which he responded, “I just want God to bring them. My point is this: my desire to get married is lower than my fear of divorce.”
He added, “As you would say it — you said it, I didn’t say it, I will agree — I’m just taking my time.”
Dr. Bryant argued with the athlete stating that his choice to have children with multiple partners is very “selfish” behavior in addition to the fact that he is creating broken homes.
“You are proactively choosing where you want to be active at and where you want to take your time,” she began. “You want to take your time in having a wife because of your own fears, but you will — and I say this will all respect and love — but you will selfishly create broken families. Even if you’re in their lives and you’re a proactive father — and I believe you’re an amazing dad — but these families are still broken. Every child cannot have papa in the house with them. So, some child, if not all, will end up with some kind of deficit without daddy being there.”
Dr. Bryant continued, “Now, you chose to do that — not saying that you woke up one morning and said, ‘I want to be selfish today, so I’m going to go make a baby.’ But those are selfish acts at the expense of your fear.”
“So, yeah, that is low-functioning behavior: to say that I’m going to build these houses and put these beautiful kids and beautiful women in them, but I’m not going to create a home, and then I’m going to wait until I dissipate my fear to find a wife — who I’m still going to be fearful with because there’s no such thing as not having some type of nerve or feeling behind marrying somebody, who you’re spending your life with — and then build a home with her while all these other beautiful babies have houses. That’s completely unfair, and it’s selfish,” she concluded.
The 34-year-old welcomed his eighth child with comedian Jasmin Brown in March of this year. Brown is the third of Newtons’ ‘baby mamas’. In addition to Brown, Newton also shares children with Kia Proctor and LaReina Shaw.
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