Ready or Not

Life sticks dads into odd juxtapositions. So, today, we take a quick look at a father who's a "Kid," a "good" dad going wrong and a dad whose surprise child gave him both love and business.

"Children can balance you out sometimes," claims single father Robert James Richie (better known by his musical moniker, "Kid Rock"). Based on what he reveals and what gossip sites celebrate, it appears that "sometimes" in no way means balance much, much less most of the times.

And while it's nice to have testimony from a girlfriend that "He's a really, really good dad. He is..." it's probably best when that opinion isn't being offered in defense of a dad who, two blocks from where he began, passes out drunk (on his way to pick up some cigs) with his kids in the backseat.

Drunk and backseat in the same sentence usually conjurs up thoughts of other risky behavior and that is where Zac Mazzotta comes in. While an unmarried 23-year-old racer, he lived a life that gave him a young daughter. And, while he loves her very much, he also now has a new biz, bringing some marketing magic to a new baby (and disease) preventer, Bravo condoms.

Mazotta admits he wasn't ready to be a father, but when baby came he daddied up, ironically helping others to delay the very love he now couldn't live without.