My Single Mom Life

I've been watching this whole Christie Brinkley child custody and divorce case, and feeling absolutely terrible for Brinkley, but mostly for the children involved.
Both Brinkley and Peter Cook, her ex-husband and the father of their youngest child, need some serious therapy.
Not only that, they both need to shut the hell up.

Why Brinkley really wanted this all to be public was so that people would be on her side once they heard and read all about their horrible marriage, how he slept with young women who were barely adults, his internet porn addiction, etc etc.
We all do feel bad for her, it sounds like she was married to a pretty terrible guy, but what about the kids?

The majority of divorced couples badmouth their ex-spouse, I have done it right here on this blog, my ex-husband has done it, still does it, he forgets I have friends who live up there and are mutual friends with some of his friends.
Most parents do this kind of stuff, and yeah, I feel badly about the things I have said on this blog, but they were my honest feelings about how he treats our sons, and the facts.
He really has fathered six kids with the last one being named Sixx like some kind of sperm donor award for being able to knock out that many kids by the time he turned 37.
We have both said things that we shouldn't have that have harmed our children.

But when you are a celebrity as famous as Brinkley, you really need to learn when to shut up and keep things behind closed courtroom doors.
Every single detail about their marriage, the affairs, the porn addiction, is now permanent public record.
Her children will be able to access the details for eternity.
Every nasty comment they made about each other, the pictures of the women he slept with, every single dirty detail is out there forever, and it will have a permanent effect on those kids.
All the days of their lives, someone they meet in school or college, or at a future job, will figure out who they are and be able to look up that information on line, and it will be discussed.
They will never be able to escape the details of the divorce and custody battle.
The things both of them have said will have an effect on those kids forever.

Her husband did have a porn problem and affairs that were part of the reason their marriage collapsed, but those details were marital problems, not parenting problems.
Brinkley has said many times that Cook was a good father to his younger children.
He didn't really get along well with Brinkley's oldest child, daughter Alexa Ray Joel, but that he was a good parent to the younger ones.
But all of this mudslinging about the porn and affairs, has tainted his children's view of him as their father.
If everyone around these kids is saying that porn is disgusting, is a dirty gross thing, that is how they will view him, as a disgusting old pervert who has sex with girls just a few years older than them.
They will think of those statements when they do get visitation with their father.
It would be in the best interest of the children, in my opinion, if both Brinkley and Cook would agree to close the details of the court cases to the public.
Ask the judge through their lawyers, to seal the courtroom from any more news and gossip reporters, no more of the dirty details needs to come out.
It's bad enough that so much of the information is out there already.