To think not Arnold Scwharzeneggar's love child should have been invited to his half sister's wedding?

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Saw this in the daily fail. Arnold's daughter Katherine got married to Chris Pratt the other day but her half brother (love child) wasn't invited.

I don't understand why she invited her dad who was responsible for said love child's existence because he couldn't keep his dick in his pants, but not her half brother ?

Also Beyoncé has no relationship with her father's love child ( reportedly- the mother of the love child is broke but Beyoncé doesn't help financially).

If it was me, I'd have a relationship with a love child of my parents. I would hold no ill will towards them since they, like everyone, didn't have a choice in being brought into the world.

What say you?

Why should she invite her half-sibling, who she probably doesn’t know?

Why would she want her father's child from an affair at her wedding, which would probably upset her mum?

Why invite her dad, since he's the reason for the love child in the first place?

I have no relationship with my Dad’s child from his affair when I was 10 and I certainly wouldn’t have them at my wedding. I don’t want his mother to know anything about my life. She was my babysitter and knew exactly whose home she was wrecking. She threatened to murder me and my mother when I was a child when my father ended things, threatened to petrol bomb our home and had the connections to be able to do immense harm. We lived in total fear. My “half-sibling” grew up to be a drug addict and criminal who has financially abused our father. And before you ask, yes my father was as involved in the upbringing of his “love child” as he was in mine and he divided finances equally between us (as he absolutely should have), I definitely did not have a more privileged existence. We have been treated equally. I know my father is far from blameless. However, given all I have experienced, I am allowed to decide wether or not I want any further intrusion or danger brought into my life than already has been.

So someone that you don’t know or have any knowledge of their family relationships didn’t invite another of their family members to their wedding and you disagree with their decision? This is such a weird topic for a thread OP.

I have nothing to do with my dad or my half siblings. I cut ties at 20 when my eldest half sibling was 11, I feel no guilt or remorse over it. I've never felt obliged to help when I knew my half sibling was in a dead end job from 16 and I was doing very well in my career. You can't judge other people's decision and circumstances. They weren't invited to my wedding, know nothing of my children or my life now.

I agree OP, I thought it was sad. Family is family and in that situation I would try to build a relationship with him. People are different though 🤷

I couldn't care less if I tried.

in an ideal world yes it would be nice, but we don’t know about their relationships or family politics so YABU, sorry.

I have very strong suspicions that I have a half sibling out there somewhere courtesy of my father however as I'm not in contact with him anymore, I have absolutely no way of proving it (he'd deny it all anyway)
If I do, I would love to meet him/her.

As an aside, I don't like the phrase 'love child'. All too often the poor baby is conceived not with love, but by a man just looking to get his leg over who has no interest in the child whatsoever.

FFS, who cares? She's an adult. It's her own business whom she invites to her wedding. She's under no obligation to invite anyone she didn't want to. Get a life.

Get a life.

Well, yes. What's up with you OP?

This is really weird. None of us know what their relationship is like, or what they're like as people. Maybe they know him and just don't like him. There are plenty of threads on here from people who can't stand their siblings. I wouldn't have one of mine at any family do, and we grew up together.

YABU just for reading the Daily Heil. They've done far more damage with their propaganda than Katherine Schwarzenneggar Shriver Kennedy Pratt whatever at her wedding.

I'm kind of in this situation except for excess of wealth - I would issue a warm welcome to my wedding and into my life. We regret what we don't do more than what we have done, so I'd take a risk on new family.

I don't know the ins and outs but if her mother prevented her from having a relationship with her step brother, then it's probably why she has no relationship with him

Maybe her father prevented her from having a relationship with the child. Maybe the child's mother. Maybe Katherine herself decided she wanted nothing to do with him.

Also Beyoncé has no relationship with her father's love child ( reportedly- the mother of the love child is broke but Beyoncé doesn't help financially

Why should she? She might despise their existence. She may think the woman who her dad had an affair with is a homewrecker or a golddigger and transfer those feelings onto the dad's child.

There are a lot of feelings that go on for all family members when an affair child is born, or when their existence is brought to light.

I'd rather give my money to total strangers than a child born from
my DFs affair.

Just because her father was incapable of fidelity, doesn't mean she would have any kind of bond with the half sibling.

Princess Anne's ex husband had an affair child.
She wasn't at the wedding of their children....because they don't have a relationship with her.

Before questioning why the half sibling wasn't there, you'd need to know if they had any kind of relationship.

Yes it’s preposterous to suggest Beyoncé should financially support the woman who slept with her father and betrayed her mother. She has no obligation to that woman. And the mistress shouldn’t have had a child if she couldn’t financially support them. It’s between Matthew Knowles and the mistress. They are responsible for their situation, not Beyoncé.

I find it strange you care .It would be different if you knew them personally . The bride may not have had a good relationship with half sibling.
Look closer to home at prince Harry's wife if you must. Her half siblings were not at the wedding .
You never know how you will react in a circumstance , it can be very different to how you think .

You literally have no idea of the ins and outs around this so you couldn’t even begin to guess the reason.

The Beyoncé thing is just mental. You think she should give money to her dad’s other woman??

Why invite her dad, since he's the reason for the love child in the first place?

For the same reason women forgive affairs and reconcile with the man who vowed love and fidelity.

You can forgive someone you know, but you have no reason to get to know a child they produced, who you may well consider to be a mistake.

Taking the celebrity status out of this, children from an affair are quite a complex area.

I've seen advice given in this situation (to the wife if her husband does not want to face a divorce) that the affair child should be left a nominal amount in the father's will, like the sum of $1 or $0.01... to show they haven't been forgotten and cannot challenge the will... because the intention was to leave them nothing.

I suspect finding out he’d fathered a child with someone his wife knew and trusted is what broke the marriage up. I gather from reading newspaper articles that the bride is exceptionally close to her mother, so there is no way she’d have invited the child (now man). That’s just rubbing salt in the wound.

Would you invite a stranger to your wedding because you shared some DNA?
DH has half siblings that he doesn’t even know the name of. They are from his Dads previous marriage and were in late teens when he was born. They have never tried to form a relationship with him and vice versa. We aren’t going to start going to events with them through some distant obligations.

My husband has a half sister he's never met (and another who he has a relationship with)

Only one got invited to the wedding (admittedly we wouldn't have an address for the one he's never met)

The comment about Beyonce is just laughable, that she has any obligation to provide financial support to a person she might not even know or care to know just because she's rich. FFS.

Katherine Schwarzennegar's father is her father. Her business whom she invites to her wedding.

I had to reread the OP because I couldn’t quite believe it the first time.

You know the square root of fuck all about these people and you’re criticising their wedding guest list?
And better still, you think a successful woman should give financial help to her father’s OW?

Get a hobby, OP, seriously.