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Originally Posted by PrettyGirl

^Exactly. It's not about having a 'dick'. It's about being fair. You want a man in your child's life, you want him to be there for the birth, you want him to recognize the child as his own and yet, when a man does all this, there are still some women who refuse to give the child his rightful family name. Bridget's romantic relationship with Tom ended, but the relationship between this baby and his father just started. She has no right to rob this baby of his birth name because his mom was angry at his dad at the time. That's an entirely separate issue.

I live in California and you can give your child any last name you want. So, believe me, Bridget wasn't forced to give her child her last name--she gave it to him because she wanted to. And, as previously stated by the poster above, I think it is vindictive. If she didn't want anything to do with Tom, she wouldn't have wanted him there period, wouldn't have included 'Thomas Edward' in the kid's name and wouldn't want a penny from him. Believe me, in no time we'll see Bridget dating.

Tom Brady hasn't denied the child at all. He didn't pull an Eddie Murphy on Bridget, didn't ask for a DNA test and he hasn't bad-mouthed her. He has taken responsibility. So yeah, with that in mind, I think the child should have his father's last name. This guy basically dropped the new girlfriend and and an entire NFL team to fly to L.A. and be at his son's birth and I'm almost sure he's going to give Bridget financial assistance. That's more than what most loser men would do nowadays.

Don't ask a man to recognize his child, be there for the birth, be part of it's life and then when he does so, you then punish the man by deciding not to give his firstborn child his last name. That's wrong.

Point being: I don't think she's "punishing" him. She included his first name. Why do you think it's punishment for her to allow the child to have her own last name? Guess what? He has to be there for that child (at least financially) not because he has his name but because he has his DNA. And he should drop everything he has to be at his son's birth. Bridget shouldn't have to name her child what Tom wants just because he actually cares about the kid! It's her kid too and she has every right to give him her last name.
I just don't think the exclusion of his last name is grounds to assume she's punishing him. Hell, she included 2/3 of them right?