No Brady Bunch for Tom

61. I have had so much respect for Bridget up till this cover. And she is really laying the ground work for a strained relationship between this boy and his father. Kids in the US get their fathers last name. He isn't going to live under the same roof as his father so give him what little there is Bridget. I hope and pray Tom doesn't chicken out and give up.....put the hurt and anger away for the next 18 years Bridget. Do everything in your power to create and nurture a healthy bond bewtween your son and his father. Not for Tom, for you boy.....

Posted at 1:47PM on Oct 5th 2007 by JAA

62. Trapping Tom? What a joke, it take (2) to tango. Besides, this woman Bridget has money and will feel the joy of having her child. FYI Bridget and Tom had a relationship
for 2 years. He felt something better came along and gave Bridget the boot-typical !Bridget, your better looking that Giselle! You will be fine!

Posted at 1:53PM on Oct 5th 2007 by Teresa

63. I don't think there's anything wrong with giving the baby her last name instead of his. If I were unmarried and pregnant I'd do the same. It makes things so much easier when mother and child have the same last name with school papers, doctor appointment, ect.

Posted at 1:54PM on Oct 5th 2007 by Susannah

64. Shocked - I guess I should have read all the comments before posting. I knew after I posted mine I would get some repsonses from people who seriously just look for a reason to be negative. For those, it is simple to call and say this is so and so making an appointment for so and so but when you raise the child by yourself the child should have your last name. Since Bridge will be the one raising the child, yes I'm sure Tom will have visitiation but he will nt be there 24/7, she did the right thing.

Posted at 1:54PM on Oct 5th 2007 by lissabell

65. She is totally stupid!!! She is your typical "If I can't have you, then I will destroy you" type of women! She thought pregnancy would save her relationship and now she's playing dirty using that little boy! She's a selfish @itch! If she wants nothing to do with Tom then make sure you DON'T collect child support, then we will know what your true intentions are!

Posted at 7:29PM on Oct 5th 2007 by ginger

66. I think if he is going to pay child support he might as well force the change

Posted at 2:32PM on Oct 5th 2007 by crymeariver

67. I'm behind Bridget on this -why don't more woman support other woman?. Men support
other men in these type of situations. Tom has a multimillion dollar contract with his team. Bridget M is okay in my book, and needs $$$$ so what. No worse then other Hollywood types!!

Posted at 2:01PM on Oct 5th 2007 by Cindy C

68. I never realized how many insiders we have reading - I mean, you guys clearly have spoken with her to use such emphatic terms as 'all the B**** wanted' and you must have talked to her to know she was actively entrapping him, wanting him as a sperm donor and gambling by getting pregnant to keep him. FACINATING!!!!!

Knuckle-draggers make me laugh so much.

Bob B. Bowie

Posted at 9:19PM on Oct 5th 2007 by Bob Bowie

69. i personally, feel my boys should have their father's last name, we were married so it wasn't an issue. when the marriage ended i didn't go back to my maiden just to make life easier for myself and my boys.

but on the other side of it.. a friend of mine married, she kept her maiden name, she was the last of her family and no brothers to carry on the name. her and her husband, who has a lot of relatives and siblings, didn't like it much, but accepted it when the children kept her maiden name. it wasn't a disrespect to their father, but out of respect for her side of their family and carrying on that name. i thought that was pretty damned good.

i'm now remarried and if i have children again, they will have a different last name from their current brothers, as i now do for my sons.. you get the looks and verbal implications from people, to me they are callus for doing that.

as long as he is listed as the boy's father, the last name doesn't matter, and it will make life easier for his mother raising him.

Posted at 2:01PM on Oct 5th 2007 by Ceyllynn

70. Oh,

I don't have a different last name than my child, I was smart and gave my child my maiden name. Page 3 is my situation of being engaged, getting pregnant and the father wanting me to kill my daughter. I ended up leaving him and when I left the last words I heard were "if you're gonna leave me, I hope you don't think I am gonna have anything to do with this baby".

Well, he wasn't called when I delivered her, his name wasn't put on the birth certificate, I gave her my last name because it's a good name to have and I am proud of it more than anything. Why should women give up their last names? From where I am from, my last name is one of honor and pride and dignity and it's very well respected. It's also a not very common name. I was PROUD to give my daughter my last name, her sperm donor did nothing to deserve to have a child carry his shameful last name. He has only seen her twice in her entire life (when she was very small), and he has never helped with the childrearing. She would question why she has the last name of a stranger, she has never questioned our last names.

I eventually married a few years later, and kept my maiden name at that time as well. I don't have any issues of school functions, etc. but I know of other mothers who are very very close to me that do have this issue and they feel hurt and ashamed and belittled on a daily basis. I feel for them and they have always told me if they could do it all over again they wished they wouldn't have given their children the fathers last names, it really causes issues even in 2007.

Posted at 2:04PM on Oct 5th 2007 by shocked..

71. I just don't understand why people feel sorry for the baby or think it is worng that the baby does not have Brady as his last name. It is custom (and has been) for a child born out of wedlock to have the mother's last name. In California, the law permits placement of a father's name on a birth certificate only if a couple is legally married, or if the unmarried father fills out and signs a witnessed and notarized declaration of paternity.
This declaration of paternity allows the father's name to be placed on the birth certificate AS THE FATHER, in the space provided for "Father's Name." It has no effect on the baby's name at all. It is completely up to the mother what the last name of the child will be. If Bridget wants to name the baby after her, more power to her. Also the last name of the child has no legal bearing on whether the baby will get child support.

Posted at 2:15PM on Oct 5th 2007 by crdnlsgrl

72. Stand back and look..who made the wiser decision...Brady...who went into another relationship within weeks......or Bridget....who didn't...and she could have...there are many men out there...who would show interest....and the name thing..is a thing of the past now....

Posted at 2:23PM on Oct 5th 2007 by Maryann

73. Interesting how mad people still are at Bridgett and how she "trapped" Tom. It doesn't matter whether she "trapped" him or not. What matters is how Tom handles this admittedly difficult situation that he helped create. It is called character. What kind of "character" does Tom have? The test of a true man is whether or not that man steps up to the plate when faced with diversity. At this point and time and with very little factual information available to us here in the public, Tom does not appeared to have much character. Sorry. To some it does not matter - just as long as he can throw touchdowns! To me though, it does matter. I want my heroes to have good character, to be good to people and to be someone I can trust. I want my hero to fly out and get to know his son no matter what the mother allegedly has done to him. If Tom can prove he is a hero with good character, I will toast a long and happy life to Tom and Gisele at their wedding! (I will do it from my home since I don't know these people and I would never be invited!) I wish Tom would fly to California on his day off and take Bridget and John to lunch where the PAPS could get a good picture of them (leave Gisele at home). It would make me feel a lot better about him! Unfortunately, I feel Tom is still so mad at Bridget that will never happen. Poor little John to have a father with no character and no desire to face diversity. That is the real tragedy!

Posted at 3:18PM on Oct 5th 2007 by Virginia Wahoo

74. #35- Brady is NOT the best QB in the NFL. BRETT FAVRE is the best QB in the NFL and of all time. Tom Brady has a LOT to learn.

Posted at 2:31PM on Oct 5th 2007 by ML

75. where have you read he is forced to pay child support...if he was forced...you would see it on ..sites like this....she may not want his money...to keep him out her her life...or he may be happy to pay....and one could say ..the opposite of what uou said..#72...if she is being..accused of getting money from him...she might as well go after all she can get.....

Posted at 2:39PM on Oct 5th 2007 by Maryann