DWIGHT HOWARD TALKS FATHERHOOD AND MORE
NBA player Dwight Howard opens up about fatherhood and the mother of his four-year-old son Braylon in a recent interview with Esquire magazine.
On fatherhood being very important:
It’s very important. Hopefully me and my son’s mom will come to a better agreement for my son. When I do see him, we have the best time in the world. He acts just like me. He tries to run like me. He looks back and smiles like me. Fatherhood is great and it will get better. He’s young. He’s gonna need his father in his life. People say you don’t need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father’s Day and why it’s not celebrated like Mother’s Day.
On mothers keeping their kids away from the fathers:
With some of my teammates, they try so hard to be around their kid, and then the mother of their child makes it so hard. A lot of guys just say, “I’m not gonna deal with it.”
I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn’t have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren’t around. I was lucky to have mine around.
Read more at Esquire.com.
BCK Says: What are your thoughts on what Dwight has to say about mothers keeping their kids away from the fathers?
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Wow… I saw Dwight and Braylon at Dwight’s celebrity basketball game here in Atlanta a few months back… & from what I saw he is a great dad… and Royce was there and they seemed to be getting along just fine. Braylon acts JUST like Dwight too…
BCK I really love your site but I’m wondering what in the world some of your readers are thinking? “Baby Mama Drama” is the result of TWO immature people, male and FEMALE. And no he didn’t have a problem “getting between those legs” as one of your readers said and too many women have no problem spreading those legs– with niether one of them thinking of birth control. And when a child arrives it is cruel, selfish and hateful to keep them away from either of their parents unless that parent is proven dangerous! Why does a man have to marry you just because you allowed yourself to get pregnant, it’s 2011 ladies, not 1951 no one has to conceive a child unless she’s lazy or wants to and if women aren’t concerned with getting MARRIED BEFORE GETTING PREGNANT, why is it somehow the man’s entire fault??? My mother raised me to be a responsible woman and not to blame or punish others for my short-commings. If you want a man to respect/love/marry you acquire that 1st don’t use a child to try and get what you want. That type of manipulation comes back on you.
I don’t think people have to get married either but a man is EQUALLY responsible for an unplanned pregnancy. To try to blame it just on the woman is ridiculous. A man ALWAYS has the choice of keeping it in his pants and/or using a condom. Just as a woman always has the choice of keeping her legs crossed.
Children will remember how daddy treated momma. Even at this young age Braylon is learning how to treat women and Dwight has not been the best role model.
Children will learn how Mommy treated Daddy too. It’s a two way street.
First off GET OUT YOUR FEELINGS….you DON’T need a father to be successful. The woman who are single parenting NOT BY choice should take offense to you believing that their son will be nothing in life with out their father. Its 2011 get out of the backwards woods. A lot of single mothers raising a boy child on their own those kids grow up to be something special.
Cant they all just get along.
Im not feeling him. He did alot of talk before he got into the NBA and did just the opposite of what he said he would do. The bottom line is I have to “respect” the man for wanting to be in in sons life and realizing that this is bigger than him and the Mother, B there for ur son no matter what. He will grade the report card later and Thank u for being his Daddy.
I like Dwight as a person but as a ball player NO! I heard he has a mean streak in him! I also heard that Royce isn’t keeping his son from him he likes to pick the child up on the days he’s not suppose to and keep him longer than he’s suppose too! Anywho LaTanya I agree how can he talk about Royce even though he didn’t mention her name when she’s not even allowed to say my baby favah lol!
I agree also with La Tanya
I am glad that he wants to be around his son and that he sees the importance of fatherhood for the sake of his son. I hope he contiues to make an effort to see Braylon bc that boy deserves a good dad. I think kids need a good full-time dad and that includes valuing marriage so that kids can see a healthy relationship between mom and dad and they get to have both mommy and daddy everyday instead of twice of month.
Agree with this also
Maybe if you married the woman before you have kids with her then you wouldn’t have babymama drama. Or at least be more selective about who you sleep with. Either way no parent man or woman has a right to keep the other out of a childs life unless they are a danger to them! I also find it funny that he can talk about her but anytime she mentions Dwight’s name he sues her. But I don’t know the in’s and out’s of their relationship so…….{shrugs}
I agree!
AGREE!!! Men always complaining about baby mama drama….You sho didnt have a problem getting in between those legs!?! Men are such a trip but then again as woman its also our fault for having sex with a man before putting a ring on it.
I know alot of ppl on here are pretty much anti-marriage but contrary to what many of you girls think, there are MANY healthy strong Black marriages and relationships. I believe that kids need to see their parents, both, on a daily basis so that they can learn how to treat their future mate and learn the importance and value of family. The way that this man and woman carried on and had this child was not the correct way. They just shacked up, had a kid, their negative business is allon the internet and in the public, Braylon dad bashes his mom and then she does it to him..how do you see this as being healthy or the right way? Um no thanks, I will wait for God to send me the right man, ensure that he is right for me and we will marry for the long haul. I know everything isnt perfect but alot of ppl do things the wrong way by purposely looking for a man and end up w/crap! I am waiting for GOD to bring me my husband. Basically dont go looking bc you’ll end up with somehting you dont want or later regret!
I totally agree with that children should see and be around their parents on a daily basic. There are are strong black marriages out there. My parents have been together for over 24 years and are happliy married. Of course they’ve had their ups and down but so does every healthy relationship.
“Maybe if you married the woman before you have kids with her then you wouldn’t have babymama drama.”
I don’t find that statement to be true (D. Wade ex-wife for example). Regardless if it’s a dating relationship or marriage, when it all falls apart, it depends on how mature the individual is that’s handling the situation. I don’t think anyone has the right to hold a child from the other parent unless it’s due to a harmful/unhealthy situation.
“At least be more selective about who you sleep with.”
I totally agree. People are so quick to jump in bed & are clueless to whom they’re in bed with. Blinded by that moment of fun. That’s why it’s important to protect yourself. Both parties are equally responsible due to situations like this. Thank god all they are passing on is a child which is a blessing from god. What about STDs, AIDs? Maybe if people thought about the seriousness of that, it would be less stories like this.