DListed.com revealed that Jon and Kate are, in fact, getting a divorce. Nobody yet knows what will happen to their kids as far as custody goes (whether they will each take turns with all eight or separate them, and then of course the times in which each parent has them), but if the eight year contract I've heard about is in fact true, then Kate will probably be making more money than Jon, and he *might* not have to pay child support. Unless they do not split custody equally. Quite frankly, about two years ago when I was watching the show I predicted that eventually they would get divorce (unless something was to change, which it didn't). That was one prediction I didn't want to come true, but here it is. I really feel for the kids.
Comments (1)
Dear Amber:
Once the Gosselins graduated from "reality" to "scripted", they went from being a family into being a Hollywood Entity. Right there, the prospects of future divorce shot up dramatically. Once that mindset is achieved, fame and fortune becomes everything. There's little room left for such quaint concerns as being loving spouses and parents. God knows, the history of Hollywood proves it!
On the question of little Leah's spanking. Most of the polls show that people think that parents sometimes have to spank their unruly kids, but that Kate should have been discrete about it with all those cameras around. I agree with both. However, it also seems that Kate did what no good mother should have done. She spanked Leah in anger, as well as in public. That negated any good the punishment might have done. A while back I wrote a column (Children Have Got To LEARN) where I dealt with that very subject.
However, given all that's happened to that family, one wonders if Kate Gosselin- or her husband- have much in the way of parental ethics left to guide them. Like a blogger once said about Britney Spears' kids, isn't there a nice family in Iowa that can adopt them?! Another bunch of mixed-up kids- and troubled adults- on the way.