So if a rich NBA player took care financially of all his illegitimate children, that would make it OK?
Money can replace the presence of a father when a child is growing up?
I never said money could replace a father, so I don't know what warm dark orifice you pulled that out of.
Ideally, we'd all marry just once, have children (what, 2.3 on average?) and raise them to be intelligent and God-fearing adults able to give back to their communities from the bounteous rewards we and they get for doing our jobs well.
Life is considerably messier than that, even for conservatives. We don't always marry well, sometimes intolerably poorly. People get led astray by everything from daytime TV to predatory cults and the ever present push to deviate from what once was a cultural norm. Substance or alcohol abuse can exacerbate other problems which might have lain dormant or never appeared at all.
Which leads to 'broken homes', although it is often one or both of the parents who is 'broken'.
Kids, if present, get swept up in that, and depending on the people involved, are either shared between caring and loving parents living in different domiciles, or are treated like shit by a custodial parent who is using them as a bargaining chip.
In reality, 39.8% of births in the US as late as 2022 were out of wedlock.
Of the circumstances of these children, Elon's are a few sigmas from the mean.
Does that make the situation "right"?
No, not by most 'moral' metrics.
Ideally, those kids would grow up in a household with two parents of opposite sexes who will be in love for the rest of their lives. No abuse, no mistreatment, no hardship.
That's a worthy societal goal, but far from being attained, and by virtue (or lack thereof) of the media, pop culture, music, etc., not to mention the intense brainwashing that all males are evil, especially the white ones (a majority of males out there), that is perfused through virtually everything from sitcoms to daytime shows and the news, it is unlikely until not only is the bar raised, but those who do make the effort to be virtuous get some damned credit for all they do instead of being lumped in as evil misogynists hell bent on keeping a woman barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen as a household brood mare/domestic/punching bag (emotionally or physically or both).
The divisive campaign in our culture goes right to the heart of that fundamental family unit.
If you don't think that indoctrination is present, you haven't been paying attention.
As for Elon, Elon is Elon. He isn't there to be a model for marital bliss, he's there to do the books and find waste and corruption. Considering I was twice divorced before I married well (I did learn from my mistakes), I'm not passing judgement on anyone.
I became more conservative as I aged.
