Working For It

Say your grandfather is Kirk Douglas,which of course, makes your father Michael Douglas, which of course makes Catherine Zeta-Jones your step-mommy. Wouldn't that make you proud? Wouldn't it inspire you to do something with your life?

Cameron Douglas is the son of Michael and a life-long drug addict, or so they say. Yesterday there was a story about his girlfriend getting busted trying to sneak him a little heroin in his electric toothbrush while he was under house arrest with guards searching everything brought to him.

Not sure what it would be like to be the child of someone quite as famous as that, but there was certainly enough money around, wasn't there? The kid didn't grow up broke which usually leads to a life of crime. I'm sure that he had every opportunity made available to him, and the life he chose is going to leave him in prison for quite some time.

Now I don't know much about the Douglas family - they seem to be decent people and good actors for sure, but the problem isn't isolated to them. I suppose that there is something to the fact that you can't hand your kids too much, too fast. They sort of need their own identity, don't they?

There are plenty of examples of people struggling under the weight of enormous expectations. I'm sure that when the kid was born and grandpa and daddy were making their money, that there was a little pressure on him to take over the family business, and perhaps it wasn't what he needed to do. Throw in all that money, the servants, the new step-mom who's pretty freaking hot, and you make a mess of a kid, right?

Thankfully, my children aren't going to have to worry about inheriting the mother lode - they are going to have to scratch and claw just like most other people, and maybe that's not such a bad thing. Farrah's kid is in jail. This kid is a mess. Johnny Carson's kid, Elvis' kid, Dean Martin's kid - the list is endless.

I guess, all that wealth doesn't mean much if you weren't the one to work for it.

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