What got me about the story is how the Dad is complaining that he has to look after the kids whilst he's on tour.
As if there's no childcare involved here too.
Guy is on stage in evening - he won't be doing bedtime routine. Someone else is doing that. Of course that never gets mentioned in these stories.
In between doing interviews (where someone else will be doing the childcare) during the day he'll be on a tour bus for a significant amount of the day. There's a lot of sitting around not doing very much during tours despite the promotion schedule.
What it sounds like to me is he's pissed off that he has to go back to the kids after performing and can't party himself. And he's pissed off that he's got to look after the kids on the tour bus etc.
It strikes me, she was doing all the parenting. Got pissed off, got a job and said right your turn whilst I try and rebuild my career. I note he wanted another kid as he's such a family man but she refused. And he's thrown a massive hissy fit at the prospect of having to actually parent. Strikes me that he saw her as his baby making machine and she was supposed to be the 'present' parent cos his career was the important one. So now is trying to play the woe is me card over it all and her saying 'actually I want to work too'.
Family men don't winge at having to take their kids on tour.
I have nfi who either of them are. I just saw the story about man getting pissy about having to parent his own kids and thought how pathetic it is, especially since there will be an army of nannies looking after the kids whilst he's performing.
So what, mum isn't there for some reason. Reasons for this may or may not be fair. It's the pissed off at parenting bit that gets me though - it's gross to make that public in that way, when doing a normal everyday thing, when he's super rich and got oodles of support. He's not a hard done by single parent who has been abandoned by any stretch of the imagination.
He wants to be a family man without having to do the family bit. And that is the take home for me.