Dadecisions

Are the stakes as a dad higher when you have a reputation for greatness you have to balance by a reputation for scandal? Or is every one about children just as important no matter how far out of the spotlight you might be?

But fathers are influenced by the news, so it becomes more than a personal one when Mick Jagger decides not to pursue magic elixers (according to gamy gossip) in order to have an eighth child. And it becomes an observable laboratory experiment conducted by someone else when considering whether the fiercely competitive Roger Clemens should have (or did) share with one or all of his five "K" sons knowledge of how steroids can help a career (until, or unless, of course you get caught).

** Tangentially, it is much easier to surf the web for gossipy object lessons than to actually decide how to deal with [for example] the issues already created this morning by Things 1 and 2. **