Nick Cannon’s Thing Behind The Thing

It encapsulates a lot of modern narratives that we don’t discuss openly.

If you say “Nick Cannon” to an average person, they will say: “Who?” But if you say it to someone that periodically scrolls TMZ, the first thing they will associate it with is how many kids he has. The current count is 12. Within the last year, he welcomed five kids with five women in the span of five months. Nice. He even drops stuff like this from time to time:

This has all become a celebrity and pop culture joke, nice little fodder for late-night talk show hosts who need a lazy punchline to conclude a bit. There’s not really any reason to think that much about it, although maybe there is.

First off: why do women keep having kids with this dude, if he clearly doesn’t believe in monogamy and could be messy and dramatic?

It seems the answer to that question is: he supports the women (mostly), or helps to, and most of them focus on their own kids/family, not the other mothers in the picture. That’s what this article claims…