Tom Brady – Not on the Winning Team?

By iParenting Staff

Tom Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots, keeps winning, week after week. I'm not a Brady fan. I wanted his ex-girlfriend, actress Bridget Moynahan, to win.

I admit, I don't know the score – I have no intimate details of Brady and Moynahan's three-year relationship. What I do know is that a man and a woman entered into a seemingly committed, long-term relationship that produced a child in August 2007. It is also fairly common knowledge that Brady quickly went from three years with Moynahan to a romantic relationship with Victoria's Secret model Gisele Bundchen. What's wrong with this picture? Plenty.

Brady, 30, might not want or even deserve all the scrutiny that he has come under, but it's part of his life as a public figure. And he's a father now, so what he does affects more than his celebrity. Is it wrong to have a child outside of wedlock? It depends on your moral code. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, it's something a celebrity has to seriously consider every time he (or she) chooses to "baby dance" – because ultimately that's what having a sexual relationship is about. You might not want a baby yet – heck, you might not want a baby ever – but make no mistake about it: That's the ultimate goal of sex.

After three years with the same person, Brady may have thought he could be lax about something like protection, but hey, things happen and relationships don't work out. There has been talk about being "trapped" into parenthood here, but I have to laugh about that. Relationships don't suddenly sour. A conscious decision had to be made to continue to have an intimate relationship even though the relationship in general was not in good shape. Seriously, how bad could it have been if it lasted for three years and sex was still a part of the process up until the end?