By Mark Z. Barabak and Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times
Former California First Lady Maria Shriver on Tuesday called “heartbreaking” husband Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission that he had fathered a child with a former household staff member more than a decade ago.
“This is a painful and heartbreaking time,” Shriver said in a statement, her first since the former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger admitted paternity of the child Monday night in response to questions from The Times. “As a mother my concern is for the children. I ask for compassion, respect and privacy as my children and I try to rebuild our lives and heal. I will have no further comment.”
Shriver and Schwarzenegger, who have been married for 25 years, separated weeks ago, after she learned of the child. Shriver, the parent with Schwarzenegger of four children, ages 13 to 21, has moved out of the couple’s Brentwood home.
Shriver’s statement Tuesday was noteworthy in tone. Although the couple announced their separation last week in a joint missive that made no mention of a cause for the split, this statement came from Shriver alone and pointedly set she and her children apart from Schwarzenegger.
Categories: Americas, Law, Law and Religion, United States
Would it not have been better, if Arnold Schwarzenegger could have married the mother of his ‘love-child’ and the extended family could have lived ‘happily ever after’?
If you keep making these suggestions, politicians will be falling over each other, to legalize polygamy in USA and Europe, before they are caught with their pants down!
I will. There are many ways to find out the superiority of the Holy Quran…
Lets not forget that the future King and Queen of England, and more importantly, the future Head of the Anglican Church lived together out of wedlock. This is not what beloved Mary taught us. All leaders of today whether religious, spiritual or political need to be honest and practice the principles which they represent.
Well said.
I have examined the consequences of the collapsing institution of marriage in the West in a Google-knol titled: Marriage melt down: a fatherless America:
http://knol.google.com/k/marriage-melt-down-a-fatherless-america#