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Three men in Tennessee are being highlighted in the media for making an unbelievable 78 babies with 46 different women. The courts are saying that even though these men have an amazing number of kids, none of them wants to pay child support.
Terry Turnage has 23 children with 17 different women, while Richard M. Colbert has 25 children with 18 women. Desmond Hatchett is the king baby maker with 30 children with 11 women.
Turnage was told to come to court to take responsibility for his children, but failed to show up. Latoya Shields, who dated Turnage for 8 years, said that she lost it when she found out about all of the other mothers and children.
“During the whole relationship, I only knew of four children,” Latoya told WREG. “At that time, three years ago, my child was the 21st child. Yeah, that would be overwhelming for anybody.”
Turnage recently filed a petition with Shelby County Juvenile Court to get his child support payments lowered, but never came to the hearing. Shields says that he never shows interest in his daughter.
“She calls him and it’s a ‘hi’ and ‘bye, see you later’ type of situation,” she said.
She says that she only gets between $6 and $9 checks in child support, when she gets anything at all. Desmond Hatchett, the 33-year old from Knoxville with 30 kids by 11 women, pays about $1.49 per month.
We won’t bore you by telling you more details of these deadbeats. We would rather encourage you to watch the interview with Etan Thomas (below), who wrote a book about the great fathers in the African American community. The three men in this article are nothing like the rest of us.
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Janice
June 16, 2012 at 7:31 pm
During slavery time, black men were encouraged to have as many babies with as many black women as possible to show how wealthy the plantation owner was. Wealth was determined by how many slaves you owned. Since that time, there are still black men with that mentality (even some of the married men). The only way this can change is that the mindset changes from birth to adulthood. For girls, that their bodies are precious and they also have brains that need to be utilized to be successful. The boys need to be given the same message. They both need to know the history of slavery in the true sense and how it relates to today’s problems. Any children born today, if not given what they need (parental love, acceptance, education, discipline, etc.), will only be caught up in the cycle of slavery. Slavery takes many forms, from drugs to s*x. And occasionally, to prison. For every black child that is born and doesn’t get what they need, the possibility that they end up in some form of slavery grows exponentially. Education is the key to the lock on those chains!
Barbara
June 16, 2012 at 11:02 pm
Educated nephew, Ivy League, married with two children. Ten other children by three different women.
In addition to “education,” we must insist they are aware of their slave history and stop repeating it. No one teaches that.
Jacqueline
June 16, 2012 at 7:12 pm
Most of these women are just as guilty has these men for laying up with them. No doubt they weren’t employee when they met them and knew they had children.
Author MIchelle Harbin
June 16, 2012 at 5:26 pm
This is why I wrote the Book ” You are the Father” it is a Novel based on a true story a man with 13 children by 7 different women. Men and women are having children by multiple partners is on the rise in the black community. The term Baby Mama and Baby Daddy has to stop. We need to bring back family values in our young adults lives. Get you lessons learned in ” You are the Father” GOOGLE Youarethefather.org. Thanks
MIchelle Harbin
June 16, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Google ”
Youarethefather.org
Author MH
June 16, 2012 at 5:18 pm
This is why I wrote the book “You are the Father” The term Baby Daddy, and Baby Mama has to stop. Family values is a must. Men and women having children by multiple partner is on the rise especially in the black community. Check out Youarethefather.org and get your Lessons Learned. The children are the future!
blacxkcobra
June 16, 2012 at 2:50 pm
HEY like Grady said on Sanford and Son, Mama baby Papa MAYBE but hope these children grow up and be something great in life and maybe forgive the father for the deed they have done in life, to remember Papa was a rolling stone.
John
June 16, 2012 at 2:46 am
The problem is there is no concept of “shame” in the Black community. Having a bunch of kids out of wedlock isn’t a good look. Being a single mother isn’t a good look. Having a bunch of kids with different women isn’t a good luck. In the Black community, anything goes. That’s the problem.
carol
June 16, 2012 at 12:45 am
Prime example of whats wrong with Black America. For what ever reason these men felt as though it was ok to abadon and deny their children.I know the excuse maybe they had no father.To that I say be someone else father be Bill Cosby be the dad from Webster or the Silver Spoon dad.The excuses do not measure up.
Spartanator
June 16, 2012 at 12:07 am
If we as a community would stop having babies out of wedlock, it’s safe to say a lot of this would have been avoided.
Instead, we have a new generation of kids that will likely repeat the same cycle.
John
June 15, 2012 at 11:46 pm
The women who laid up with those guys are retarded.
Tera
June 20, 2012 at 6:07 pm
R-E-T-A-R-D-E-D!!!! John. Freak that!!! They need to be held responsible for WHO THEY SLEEP WITH! DANG! 8 years and you did not know he had 25 kids?! h**l what about the 4 he did claim to you?! Did he see them? RETARDED!
Godyjones
June 15, 2012 at 6:26 pm
I guess this is why women always sayin men are dogs,i mean wut tha h**l?