I get sad when people don’t pay attention to Charlotte Casiraghi. She has a lot of potential to be a standard of royal and royal-adjacent gossip coverage, but I end up ignoring her most of the time because there doesn’t seem to be a ton of interest in her. Charlotte got knocked up by her boyfriend back in 2013. It was sort of scandalous because her lover was Gad Elmalah, a 16-years-older French-Moroccan and a non-Catholic (Gad is Jewish). Charlotte didn’t confirm her pregnancy until the very late stages, and when it was announced, she packaged it with an engagement announcement too. The baby, a little boy, was born in December 2013. Charlotte and Gad named him Raphael. Things were pretty quiet and in the year and a half that followed, Gad and Charlotte did not marry. And now they never will. Apparently Charlotte has dumped him!
Charlotte Casiraghi is nursing a broken heart – and a sore back after falling off her horse in a jumping competition today. The 28-year-old – who is eighth in line to Monaco’s throne –has abruptly split after three years with French comedian-actor Gad Elmaleh, 44, PEOPLE confirms. The couple are parents to a 17-month-old son, Raphaël.
“It’s sad,” a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE, confirming reports that broke in the French media on Thursday. “Mostly, this is a couple that drifted apart over their careers. He wasn’t around enough – and she wanted a father for her son.”
With a 16-year age gap, the princess – whose mom is Monaco’s Princess Caroline and grandma is the late American actress-turned-Princess Grace Kelly – and the comedian were an unconventional and extremely private couple. After meeting at a party in late 2011, the pair embarked on a discreet relationship that quickly went from whispered affair to tabloid favorite.
Their coming-out was a public appearance together in March 2013 alongside members of the Monaco royal family at the Bal de la Rose – but they continued to maintain a quiet profile, even as Casiraghi prepared to give birth to their son in December that year.
Never married, the couple split their time largely between France and Los Angeles. Their backgrounds and interests were wildly divergent: Casiraghi is a competitive horse jumper and Gucci model. Elmaleh is a Moroccan-born, French stand-up comedian and actor who appeared in 2011’s Midnight In Paris. He has a 15-year-old son, Noé, from a previous relationship with French actress Anne Brochet.
It’s worth noting that once again, People Magazine gets the titles wrong. They want to make everyone into a princess. Charlotte is not a princess. Her mother, Princess Caroline, wanted her children to be without royal titles. Charlotte has always been known as Charlotte Casiraghi. It was said that the late Prince Rainier adored Charlotte in particular (out of all his grandchildren) and from what I understand, she’s already a significantly wealthy heiress, mostly from what her grandfather left her.
Considering Charlotte’s uncle Prince Albert finally got around to providing the Grimaldi throne with some legitimate heirs, it’s not like Charlotte’s place in Monaco’s line of succession is particularly urgent. She’s rich, she’s beautiful, she can do whatever she wants. But it’s still rather surprising to see a young, royal-adjacent almost-princess having a baby out of wedlock and breaking up with the dude before they even get married. Who should she get with next? Prince Harry is a pipe dream. I could see her with an American movie star though. Jake Gyllenhaal’s probably in the market for a new girlfriend. Oooh, Bradley Cooper would be excellent! He already speaks French.
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I think the Queen should the only person to say whether or not someone must go without a title. I hate what Princess Anne did to her kids and deny them titles, why didn’t she give hers up as well, don’t get the logic.
Titles come from the father’s line, their father did not accept a title on his marriage to Anne ergo his children do not have titles. That said, The Queen could give them some. None of this has anything to do with Anne’s though.
Both of Anne’s children, Peter and Zara, refused titles themselves when they got married to their spouses, so they obviously agree with their mother about not having titles.
IMO Zara and Peter refused the titles because it would look silly for them as grown ups and harm their careers. They lived their life without titles and got praised as the normal, hard working “no fuss” grandchildren of the Queen. Accepting an Earldom or whatever would make them look desperate and elitist. Big PR catatrophe for serious sportswoman Zara…
Now that the UK has a princess Charlotte, it’s especially problematic if publications get this Charlotte’s title wrong. I don’t really get why she had a baby with this guy, unless she really wanted a baby, but yeah rich, beautiful, and not tied to the obligations of a throne sounds pretty great. No need to waste all that on a deadbeat boyfriend.
I love that the Grimaldis provide the juicy gossip from the European royals. The queen would drop dead if Harry decided to go out with any royal from Monaco.
Someone ought to do the world a favour, and lauch a reality show with the Grimaldis.
Its hilarious how the Windsors have this reputation of being scandalous, because seriously, compared to the Houses of Monaco, Sweden, Spain even Norway, the Windsors are practically the Waltons!
Prince Andrew is hardly the waltons.
@Hannah – Well for every Prince Andrew I can name 3 more examples from other Royal Houses for misdemeanours.
They are often not invited for get-togethers between European houses, and who can blame them?
Think most people would not want to hang out with them.
Surprising? Not really. Does anyone else remember how her aunt Stephanie dominated the tabloids in the 80s with her relationships? Seems like Charlotte is following in her footsteps.
Oh, I remember! She was a wild child and I recall the rumors about her and Rob Lowe too.
Charlotte is lovely and so resembles a young Princess Caroline.
Charlotte is pretty like her mother and an equally bad chooser of men. You’d think her daughter would have learned something from that but apparently not as she did the same thing.
Let’s not forget auntie Stephanie and her many, many silly relationships – my favorite was when she travelled around with that carnie and his circus. It’s genetic, apparently. Charlotte never married despite having a kid and nothing to stop her. I bet she knew they were unsuited early on.
Not just the eighties, haha.
Remember when she followed a circus in a car because she was with one of the circus-guys? That is much more recent.
She’s stunning.
Yup. Completely stunning.
+1000 I always thought her mother and grandmother were the most beautiful women in the world. Charlotte trumps them. She is gorgeous.
She is really beautiful. I hope she takes better care of herself then Caroline did. Caroline is still beautiful as she has the great structure, but smoking and drinking have really taken a toll. Those are some beautiful genetics passed from mother to daughter though.
She is so beautiful. And a near replica of her mother at that age.
But why do those Grimaldi girls – with all the beauty, money and connections in the world – have *such* terrible taste in men? Where did it come from? It used to be said that Caroline and Stephanie were rebelling against their mother. But what is Charlotte’s story?
Gad has been a really successful French movie star, and has lots of money, so he is not exactly a loser.
Deborah, a man who does not care about spending time with his child is a loser.
Caroline did pick one good man (the father of 3 of her children) and seemed to have calmed down. Charlotte didn’t seem to go through a lot of men before this relationship and it isn’t one of those rships exploded into something dreadful. Princess Stephanie definitely has NO taste in men; she has some serious demons and I wish her well….
Pierre Casiraghi wasnt exactly going to win any character awards.
@deborah: yes. But an aging homely comedian even with money is certainly not a catch for someone with the beauty, position and wealth of Charlotte for sure…
So definitly a low pick
I’ve just always been amazed at how much better she looks without makeup or just a hint. It’s not even that the makeup isn’t done well. She’s just such a natural stunner.
She will follow in the footsteps of her mom and aunt and find a string of inappropriate, high profile boyfriends. Her mom and aunt have six baby daddies/fathers between them.
She could be going down Princess Stephanie’s path. At least Caroline married her baby daddies.
Not all of them.
Caroline had 3 with Casiraghi and 1 with Prince Ernst. She was married to both.
I thought Casiraghi and Hanover were Carolina’s baby daddies?
Oops. I read your original comment as stephanie. Apologies.
Do you really believe people should marry “for the kids”?
That’s quite funny.
Monaco royals aren’t as stuffy — they’re like trailer park compared to the Windsors, but better looking. Charlotte would’ve been great with Prince Harry, if only for the gossip. She seems like a prickly customer. I think she’s usually the one doing the dumping — of course, it’s easy to do when you’re uncle runs a country and you have billions at your disposal.
The two royal houses represent the two extremes of royalty. One is tacky and the other stuffy. None are appealing marital prospects.
Of course if I had a chance to access the Windsor Jewelry vaults, i’d sign up quicker than the flash. I’m cheap that way.
I don’t know, the younger Windsor royals seem to be managing the feat of being both tacky and stuffy.
And then there’s Prince Andrew of course, who’s just flat out tacky.
@Jessica, and flat out a criminal!!
LAK, I’d take the Windsor jewel vaults as well, but I’d throw in Caroline’s diamond hair ornament Charlene wore at the wedding. Charlene can keep the Ocean Tiara and Diamond Spray headband, neither of which really appeals to me.
You can tell from pics that she smokes a lot… Yuck.
I know her mother and aunt smoke like chimneys as there are tons of pictures of both but how can you tell Charlotte smokes just by these pictures?
Her teeth. She’s too young to have those teeth.
Cigarette smoke makes me SO ill. Pot smoke, cigars, pipes- I’m fine. But cigarettes, even walking behind someone on a sidewalk, can make me sick for the rest of the day.
Okay… Maybe she drinks a lot of coffee… I don’t see “smokers teeth” I didn’t know there was such a thing. The rest of the world typically doesn’t have the bright white teeth of Americans. I also am guessing you don’t walk behind her regularly to smell the smoke? I think she smokes too, but I don’t see anything physically that says “smoker” in these pictures.
Yup, there is such a thing as smokers teeth.
The staining is focused on the front 4 teeth and gets whiter as you go back toward the molars.
So, that’s how it is physically visible to see that she’s a habitual smoker, without needing to walk behind her…
What?, that’s fascinating. I have not ever looked that closely!! Thanks for the info. I figured she smokes because there are sooo many pictures of her mom and aunt smoking.
Not everyone has white teeth though. (Regarding your “too young” comment.)
I kind of wonder if Charlotte really is that wealthy in her own right, considering that her mom is sticking with her Hanover marriage in name even though it’s been done for years. The HRH is nice, but could it be that the Casiraghis aren’t as wealthy on their own?
The Casiraghis are very wealthy — her paternal grandparents gifted her an island when she was 5. Nevertheless, it doesn’t matter, since she is widely believed to be Prince Albert’s favorite.
Supposedly it’s the HRH that keeps Caroline in the marriage, not any money that Ernst brings to the table. The title is really important to her and she would lose it if they divorced. She seems perfectly happy to let him run around Croatia drinking himself into oblivion with his latest blonde.
Where titles are concerned in the royal club, it’s not about money. In the royal club, being a ‘Serene Highness’ like the Monaco royals are, is the equivalent of being the help! Caroline, a known snob, will not give up her HRH no matter how reprehensible the husband.
I know that HRH is a big deal, but I just keep going back to that rumor that Stefano Casiraghi was killed over mob debts. Which would be usual for a family that was already fabulously wealthy.
Bridget, I never heard that rumour. Interesting! Do you know more? I remember when his speed boat crashed. Was it supposedly tampered with?
I find the Monaco royals very interesting for some reason!
That’s the rumor. Supposedly he was deep in debt to the mob to finance his real estate company (not exactly a shock in Monaco, as it’s one of the shadiest places on earth) and was trying to cut ties with them, and they messed with his boat.
Bridget, thanks! I missed that rumour, very interesting. So shady! The place, the royals there!
Bridget: I heard that rumour too, but i’ve never thought Stefano’s wealth was anywhere near the wealth of the Grimaldis. I’ve always assumed that Caroline Etal are wealthy from *her* side of the family rather than via inlaws. Exception of Andrea who married a *legit billionaire.
*legit = well documented fact.
Honestly, this is all just speculation on my part (and the Casiraghis are pretty fun to speculate about!). But I wonder how much Ranier’s grandchildren would have actually inherited. Not including Albert and his issue, there’s 6 or 7 of them?
Getnetworth says the family net worth is $5.7 billion so I guess they are okay for now……. 🙂
It’s entirely possible that the Grimaldi family is worth billions but that doesn’t mean it’s going to be equally divided among every single family member. That’s like assuming that since the Queen of England is incredibly wealthy that Princess Beatrice is wealthy in her own right (Bea has a nice trust fund, but not ‘fabulous wealth’ range).
This is not surprising at all! Her mother at a very young age, against her own mothers wishes hooked up (did she marry him?) with Phillipe Junot, a much, much older playboy, who may even be Charlottes father. Caroline, if she did marry him, was definitely pregnant prior. That seems to be the Grimaldi way of hooking husbands as I think Caroline (or HRH as she supposedly prefers) was pregnant when she married Cashrighaigi as well as when she married Prince Ernest, her current MIA alcoholic husband. While she was having these many experiences her sister Stephanie was getting pregnant, running off with bodyguards, getting pregnant, running off with circus performers, et al. They smoke, drink, get pregnant and in Charlotte and her mothers (fading) case look beautiful while doing so.
Too true. They make it look good until they hit middle-age.
Philippe Junot can’t be Charlotte’s father seeing that Caroline met, married and divorced him in the 70s. Marriage was later annulled.
Charlotte was born in the 1987 when Caroline was very much with Stefano Casiraghi.
Charlotte isn’t old enough, by a good 7-8yrs, to have been fathered by Junot.
and she is too pretty to be the daughter of that pork crisp.
Stefano was a dream prince (he was the complete package), compared to Junot… eewwww.
Your right, three kids by the second marriage. I was going by memory and wasn’t sure what order they were born in and if she had them all by Cashrighi or if she had ever been pregnant with Junot.
Caroline and Phillipe Junot definitely married. I cut the pictures out for my scrapbook.
Dont forget Caroline’s third husband, Price Ernst – who gave her the much longer for upgrade to HRH – was in fact her best friend, Chantal’s, then husband, and she was pregnant when they wed.
Susan1: Just to answer your question, Caroline most certainly did marry Phillipe Junot. When I was a young girl I loved reading about the Royals of Monaco. I think it was because I’d read that the Grimaldis originally came from my place of birth and I felt some weird connection… Then life took over and I woke up to the whitewashed and heavily-embroidered truths employed by womens’ magazines…! History seems to constantly repeat with this family; the awful deaths, the broken relationships, scandal, affairs, children out of wedlock, the tackiness…
Tea and Sympathy, I have always been fascinated by them too. I am about the same age as Caroline and when I was young her life looked so wonderful. Since then I have loosely kept up with them and you are certainly right, their lives are a mess!
Princess Grace pushed for her daughter to marry Prince Ernst when she was still alive. Caroline married him after her mothers death, and after “stealing” him from her best friend. She was of course pregnant at the time of their marriage. What a family!!
Thank you Susan – I didn’t know about Princess Grace pushing for Caroline to marry Prince Ernst! Who knows how things might have been if she’d listened to her mother…? My mind was jogged after reading about the two basketball girls, Brittany and Glory, even though I don’t know who they are. Has your mind been jogged, too? Remember when Caroline and Phillipe split, Caroline (with the help of her family , no doubt) spent years appealing to The Vatican, trying to have the marriage annulled? I can’t remember what happened, though, and whether she and Stefano Casiraghi married in church, because a divorce would not have allowed that. Do you have any info on this?
Yes, Caroline did marry Phillipe Junot; much to the consternation of Princess Grace. She was a mere 21 and there was a 17 year age gap. That isn’t so bad as much as Junot was a notorious playboy who screwed around ALL the time. At least there were no children involved in their coupling.
Gad was good in TinTin
Who did he play in Tintin?
Yes, who did Gad play in Tintin? Because I actually saw that movie.
Hergé was a freaking genius and the entire series of Tintin comic books are incredibly entertaining. I used to read Asterix and Obelix as well, but I narrowly prefer Tintin.
And Priceless with Audrey Tautou! He was great in that movie. I see the appeal, in a very French actor-y way.
I’ll say this in her defense, she’s obviously not superficial about the men she dates. Gad is homely, and old. She’s young and beautiful. He looks like a foolish man to let her go.
The Monaco royal family is the gift that keeps on giving.
On thst note, it’s been a few years, we’re about due for another bastard child of Albert ‘ s to pop up, lol
I don’t think Charlotte ever got engaged to Gad. There was no announcement. I am more familiar with Gad Elmaleh than most of you on this site and have been a fan of his for years. Gad has been traveling a lot lately on tour with his comedy show Sans tambour and just recently celebrated 20 years in comedy (I watched the special in French on Youtube). He’s actually coming to NYC to perform in French and I reaaaalllyyy want to go (I’ve seen him perform live previously in NY but it was a smaller venue).
Anyways can’t say I am too surprised. Gad travels a lot and is often on tour, not to mention he is older. I could never see him marrying into the Monaco royal family, it would distract too much from his incredibly successful career. The French media is making it sound like she got frustrated he was never around for their son and decided to pull the plug. Can’t say I blame her.
Hmmm. While it’s likely true, I’ll just add that the “he’s never around” excuse, given his schedule, is also very convenient.
I don’t get what is so negative and awful in the fact that she did not marry a man eho obviously was not the right for her. They loved each other, had a baby and it didn’t work out. Would it be better if she married him and then divorced? Why? Wouldn’t it be messier? On the other hand, would it be better if she maried someone ill-suited with a title, and then live in a marriage like Diana had, for example? She’s young, she’s rich and she lives in 21st century; what is so wrong with her life choices? Prince Charles is in his second marriage! Prince Andrew anyone? But British royals are soooo classy.
Excellent points, GeekyChick!
I’m typing this from my phone, and mobile comments tend to get wonky, so bear with me if I reply to the srong comment please:
Ok, the legitimate-illegitimate children and their privileges is a troublesome concept, I agree. OTOH, the difference between royL siblings in some families and dinasties is also troublesome, IMHO (Japan-the wife of the younger prince who kelt getting pregnant just to get a son, just before Parliament was supposed to vote on the little Princess as the next Ruler?, I found that incredibly tacky, sexist and out of date). I think the prince Andrew connection with underage prostitutes, Harry(who I like!) in Nazi costume, or the whole Charles cheating spectacle (the tampon comment anyone?) is really tacky. Especially considering that British Royal family upkeep is paid from the pockets of it’s citizens. I think Monaco (and I may be wrong!) have their private wealth and are primarily financed from that, except the state ruler; I mean Albert has more functional, active role in running of the state than British Royals. Considering that, I don’t get how it’s anyone business how many children someone born into wealth has. It’s that person’s wealth. Children of movie stars are born into wealth, granddaughter of Onassiss was born into wealth, do we care and comment on how many children out of wedlock they all have. I don’t know, I just think that while you can financially support your decision about how many children you’ll have, it’s not anybody else’s bussiness. And I find the concept of “children out of wedlock” incredibly outdated.
Agree. I hate the narrative that the Grimaldi’s/Casiraghi’s are tacky or a joke because they have children out of wedlock. I mean, seriously? It’s 2015.
Prince Albert has a lot of kids out of wedlock, though, I think. In that sense he’s not much different from Kevin Federline. He’s royal, but his behaviour isn’t much different from someone you’d see on Maury Povich. It’s one thing to get pregnant by accident once, but shouldn’t aristocrats like Prince Albert know how birth control works? Also, because he’s royal and they have some kind of inheritance/succession scheme they have to follow, it kind of seems as though the illegitimate kids get shafted while his legitimate kids won’t. That adds a form of dysfunction that a regular person wouldn’t have to deal with.
Maybe it’s the fact they keep getting pregnant over and over when not married to anyone or when that person is married to someone else that makes the narrative a bit jokey-looking.
Prince Charles and Diana’s marriage didn’t work out, but at least neither has kids by someone else out there who have to worry incessantly that William and Harry are getting all the perks while they get shunted to the side. In the case of royals I do think it makes less sense for them to have out of wedlock babies, partly because of how their inheritances are doled out and partly because of how the legitimate kids get all the attention while the illegitimate kids have to stand to the side, completely removed from the public narrative of the family’s history.
The Grimaldis/Albert aren’t tacky for having multiple children outside of wedlock, he’s tacky for the way he treated the most recent one and his mother afterward.
I disagree, it’s tacky imho. It’s like they don’t know how birth control works or they are so unsure of the relationship that only a pregnancy will seal the deal, or they are so unable to plan that they wait until pregnant to actually think about what they are doing. And it’s tacky to run off to the circus or run off with your body guard. For goodness sakes if we are still going to have “royalty” in today’s world then they should darn well stand for something. And Prince Albert, tacky, tacky, tacky, just seems to sow his seed indiscriminately……
@Susan1: I agree.
oh please, people do as if Albert fathered 1000 kids and his sisters are “sluts” for falling for in live with hard working, normal guys. People live, they have sex, women can get pregnant. Life happens. Albert´s girlfriends happily had unprotected sex with him. He didn´t force them to birth his “bastards”.
Under french law (=Monaco) all children are equal. “Out of wedlock” means nothing there. All Grimaldi/Casiraghi children are born as extreme rich heirs. Albert´s billions will go to all his 4 children (his twins and the two he and his ex girlfriends happily produced before he met his wife).
IMO his two oldest kids got the better deal. They get everything for free and live a luxury life right now. Just take a look at his daughter´s social media. She is a super happy, young, educated, rich woman and hangs out with her Casiraghi/ Ducruet cousins. No royal work and no paparazzi stalking because Albert sues everyone who harasses the kids. The twins unlike the older siblings and cousins will have to live and work in front of the cameras all their lives. I bet they will envy big sister and brother.
I don’t know about the Grimaldis and Caisraghis, but if you get to live a cushy life without any worries just because you plopped out of the right vagina, at least have the commons sense to no get pregnant or make someone pregnant.
Does she have a job? What is she doing with her life?
Also, Gad means bastard in my language. Funny.
I suspect they’re drunk off their faces a lot, which accounts for the lack of birth control and many surprise babies. Somehow, I don’t think it’s about them being Catholic.
I’ve read that she earned a degree in philosophy from the Sorbonne.
This family is such a mess. I love it. This is why I laugh at how some will put royals up on pedistals by claiming how certain regular women like Kate, Sofia, Maxima, Daniel etc aren’t “good enough” to date/marry someone in a royal family. Especially when the royals themselves leave much to be desired as great human beings. A lot of them are involved in or have been involved in some very scandalous behaviour themselves.
For some of these royal families, it makes me wonder why anyone (man or woman) would even want to be married into them.
Vanessa Paradis and Benjamin Biolay broke also.He felt in love of another woman at Paris
oh, no! I liked them. LOL.
Oh no! And for an actress / someone she knows, too. Anna Mouglalis. They’ve already shacked up apparently. Ah la France.
I thought Anna Mouglalis was married to Carla Bruni’s ex?
Biolay also banged the married Carla Bruni…so the circle is complete 😉
More royal godsip!!! Please! 😉
I love Monaco’s royals….they are so trashy I can’t help but love them hehehe
She’s beautiful but this family has always been dysfunctional. Good luck to her.
Ah the Monegasques – class all the way. I feel about as sorry for Charlotte Casiraghi and her jet set life and bad decisions as I do for Pss. Beatrice, although the latter at least has the brains how to figure out not to get pregnant. Like her mother, CC seems to have a total death wish where men are concerned.
The Gramaldi’s are always good for a scandal. Charlotte looks so much like her aunt ay this age.
Ugh let’s just stop putting B-Coop into the mix for any young woman out there. He’s just gross.
Apparently they pulled an Affleck/Garner and went on a family pap stroll, so at least they want us to think that they’re still together.
i think they had a big fight, she moved out and then she changed her mind.
Nice theory
“Out-of-wedlock” expressoon makes my blood boil. It us the 21st century.
For me it’s not so much the century we are in, it’s how disrespectful it sounds.
I am right there with you. It IS disrespectful. A lot of people these das don’t want to get married, but they want to build a family.
I hate the expression for the same reasons as you. It also just confirms my view of marriage. I don’t want to be locked in anything.
Marriage is what YOU make of it. Sheesh..
Daily Mail shows them cuddling and looking very together.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3111448/Charlotte-Casiraghi-split-French-boyfriend-Gad-Elmaleh-reports-claim.html
I saw that. They seem very much together.
I hope that the split is true (or that it’ll become true !), it’s so sad knowing her with this jerk. Charlotte was very popular in Europe and she had an amazing (and age appropriate) fiance. Gad El Maleh is a cheater and an opportunist. He always dates women with more money, fame, or relations than him and all his career was helped by his conquests, and he keeps cheating on them with cheap strippers.
I was looking at todays photos in the Daily Mail – her hair looks much longer and thicker than it ever was.
Ever since I saw that movie with him and Audrey Tatou “Priceless” I have a huge crash on him.
I guess the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree! Charlotte’s mother, Princess Caroline, married notorious French playboy Philippe Junot when she was a mere 21. Princess Grace did everything she could to prevent the marriage, to no avail. He cheated on her constantly, and due to an age gap of 17 years, they eventually divorced. At least there were no children involved in their relationship; unlike this one.
Enjoy yourself and take the necessary precautions! Why have kids with these Euro-Trash idiots?!
I live in France and it’s pretty common among people under 40 to not get married yet have kids and live together. Very few of my French friends (with children) are married, it’s considered old-fashioned.
Most of my friends with kids aren’t married either – it’s not much of a big deal in Australia.
Absolutely! We do not measure the height of a commitment by mariage, you can be fully committed with kids but not married… it’s actually more common than being married overhere!
Exactl!!! why buy the cow when the milk is free……
Since most of the friends I have in the US are divorced before 35 years old, I would say that is a smart decision. As I told a friend who sadly pressured her now husband to marry him, just because he donated sperm doesn’t mean he will make a good husband/father. She wanted a second kid he told her to have an abortion and later became an alcoholic….winner!