I think you’d have to be narcissistic to go into having children with no dad if you are also not going to be there for your kids. You have to be very self consumed as a professional athlete the hours that go into training. Also then to take a career as a doctor the study load and hours, odd shifts of work etc. I’m surprised she knows her children’s names. She must have very supportive parents raising the children. Poor them but they created and enable her to be self centred

i think that a child needs a mum and a dad and they are better off for it but everyone has different views.

Those children will never be forced to go to the other parent against their wishes. Neither will they be confused by one parent “bad mouthing” the other. I know not all parents do this but I know some who do, and others have done it in the past. They won’t have to contend with the parent who only has short access having another partner taking part of the short time they may desire with their parent. Mum won’t be saying to her children I haven’t got any money, ask your Dad, even when he is paying full child support and is still paying part of the mortgage of the house, and she is also getting a Centrelink payment.

When I read that she didn’t want to go into a relationship knowing that she could end up in a divorce again and have a custody problem with the kids, I wonder what happened to her that she feels this way. Somewhere on her road in life she must have gotten hurt. Wishing her well, hope that everything works out with her future hopes and dreams.

at least she has the sense to realise that marriage isn’t for her and it wouldn’t be fair to the children to go through what her first born has gone through!

I think she should be praised as a role model and inspiration for a lot of single mums out there who just live off centrelink benefits – she is showing her three children that if you work hard you can recreate a life for yourself even after divorce and retiring from competitive sport rather than just relying on tax payers to fund the rest of your life.

I think she is a strong woman who knows what she wanted out of life and is creating exactly what she wants/needs in her life – good for her I say!

I have 3 friends who have done exactly the same thing. Their children are loved and very well cared for.
I had children with a partner and we are now separated. Kids have to do 50/50 after lengthy legal battles.

If she can support them, I don’t see any problem with this. It’s easier to have someone to share parenting with, but if she’s happy without, that’s fine.

More power to her!

Good on her if i had my time again i would do the same

If she can support them she can have as many babies as she damn well likes. I grew up without a dad and I’m more or less ok. I’d much rather be the child of a single mother who wanted me so much she made me happen without a partner than an accident from bogans.