Bad Dads and Divorce

"In a perfect world, there are no lawyers."

Who would expect such wisdom from backup-dancer/former-Mr. Britney Spears/unselling rapper/Super Bowl ad character Kevin Federline? Well, nobody. And they'd be right, but we wouldn't have such a perfect quote without him. His lawyer, Mark Vincent Kaplan, was responding to whether Kevin and Britney (Spears) should have stayed together for the sake of their children.

Maybe they should have stayed together for the children of others? If Kevin could somehow have become a good father, maybe the marriage and fall of Pop Tart Spears wouldn't have been a disillusioning factor for Things 1 and 2?

Fortunately, T1 and T2 have no interest in politics beyond the presidential horse race as (in other OMG!, what was and is the father thinking news) we also have the divorce battle update from former New Jersey Governor James McGreevey (shamed from office for financial shenanigans as well as an affair with a male aide) and his wife. Dina Matos McGreevey is looking for $56,000 a month in alimony for herself and the couple's 5-year-old daughter.

According to The Star Ledger report, the name calling is hot and heavy. McGreevey accused his ex- of wearing an "inappropriate and ill-fitting ball gown" on the Oprah show. The former first lady of the Garden State fired back that Mr. out-of-office-and-the closet is "a disinterested and irresponsible father."

** When complaining how low the bar for fathers is set, it sometimes helps to remember which ones get the headlines. **