“simply because she bore his children?”
Again - with the belittling. Simply? No - bearing children is not simple.
Elin resisted Tiger at first.
Tiger’s friends have stated that Tiger wished to marry so he could have kids.His friends had kids and it looked fun.
So he deceives this woman - makes her think he’ll be a family guy, when it appears all he wanted was kids.
He should have done what other whacky celebrities do and just paid a surrogate instead of tricking a woman into a sham marriage.
And yes - since Elin is a former nanny - I find it highly likely she’s changed more than a few diapers.
I’m not belittling at all.
Some people seem to think that a component of the sum that she should receive from him should represent a “payment” for bearing his children.
That is absurd thinking. That suggests she doesn’t value the children in her own right as much as he does, that she was sort of like a surrogate mother who should be paid to have her own children.
I will stipulate that Elin may well be a much nicer person than Tiger.
And no doubt she did change diapers back when she worked as a nanny. Why that should entitle her to half his fortune when no doubt as the wife of Tiger Woods he hired nannies to work FOR her, is not clear.
This whole “fraud” argument only goes so far. I’ll stipulate that as a person, from what we know so far she has more class than Tiger. But whatever happened to the idea of finding out what a person is like BEFORE marrying that person? Are we to believe Tiger’s predilection for casual sex with pancake house waitresses and porn stars only started AFTER his marriage?
People seem to be confusing this case of a woman married for only a few years to a man who had already established himself as ridiculously wealthy with, say, a 20-year marriage where the couple starts out with nothing and one spouse helps put the other through medical school or some such or stays home with the children allowing the other spouse to eventually achieve a successful career on behalf of them both.
Trying to fit this Tiger Woods situation into that template as a justification for giving her $250 million as opposed to mere tens of millions just doesn’t fit. The two situations have little in common.