Who's Your Daddy? Likely, He's Travis Henry! NBA Player Fathers Nine Illegitimate Children by Nine Different Women

Some pundits would have us believe that certain female celebrities - Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Nicole Kidman, to name a few - adopt foreign-born children as if they were an accessory, like a handbag or a new pair of shoes. Some have made much of the rumor - true or not - that these women have chosen to adopt not because of a sense of altruism, but more from a sense of maintaining one's body as long as possible before Mother Nature and Father Time do their inevitable damage.

Hey, stretch marks, sagging bosoms and widened hips cost a LOT of money to repair and maintain, folks. As of early September '07, both Jolie and Madge have hinted broadly (no pun intended, really) of their intentions of expanding their current families. Both are expected to adopt children born outside of the United States.

Let's be real here, people. These women are doing what certainly looks to be a very, very good thing, opening up their hearts and their wallets to adopt kids who otherwise would face a pretty bleak future, if any future at all. The only point that I'd like to make here is this: There are plenty, God knows more than plenty, of illegitimate, orphaned, disabled, and abandoned kids of all colors and ages right here in the United States who desperately need families and homes.

NBA player Travis Henry is the kind of man, and I use that term loosely in his case, who's part of the problem, and part of what seems to be a growing trend among professional athletes to sire children born out of wedlock. By the ripe old age of 28, Henry is the biological father of nine kids by nine different women - and he's only 28! He's been in the news lately complaining that paying support for these nine children is making him broke.

Brilliant, Travis. But he's not the only guy to go 'pro' in the arena of sexual misconduct; Calvin Murphy is the reigning king of athletes with illegitimate children: nine separate women have given birth to Murphy's fourteen (14) children. You're the man, Calvin, until we can catch you long enough to slice off your boys with a Cutco knife, preferably the serrated one.