Spoiled Children of Divorce

For the first time ever, California the Divorce State extraordinaire, has put its money where its mouth is and elected leaders who are Children of Divorce. This is all within the last year. The Divorce State, which chooses not to share its divorce statistics with the CDC, has chronically avoided electing its progenies. What happens to all of those children of all those messed up people who are going through divorce and why don’t we ever hear​ about them?

Now suddenly we have Senator Kamala Harris and Governor Gavin Newsom. I posted about Harris before so will quickly look at Newsom’s biography. Newsom was born in San Francisco in 1967. That’s the Summer of Love. Don’t know if his parents were hippies. His Father was a lawyer and Justice so probably not. Newsom’s parents separated when he was 2 years old and divorced in 1972 when he would have been around 5 years old. He moved to Marin County with his Mother and Sister. I would have thought that he grew up wealthy but apparently just the opposite. His Mother had to work at 3 jobs to support their family. In spite of that,​ she took in Foster Children. Newsom’s Father apparently gave away all his money. He was a part-time lawyer in Truckee, CA who also worked at working-class​ jobs. Newsom would see his Father every few months when his Father would take him to political events​. Some good old divorced Daddy parenting here? Newsom struggled​ with dyslexia. It sounds like he bounced around in schools quite a bit. Okay, so it looks like Newsom’s ACE score might be a little high and he ended up as Mayor of San Francisco and is now Governor of California.

In High School Newsom worked at many janitorial jobs. He graduated from Santa Clara University with a major in Political Science. He attended on a partial baseball scholarship. He started a winery business which was funded by Gordon Getty. His Father was a lawyer for Getty. So Newsom has had good social connections. I’m sorry to sound catty about that but it’s important to analyze the situation. I mean, he’s a cool Dude, but California’s got lots of cool dudes. Newsom discusses his childhood here in a very interesting interview where he talks about things you do to connect with a divorced parent. https://www.kqed.org/news/11696701/gavin-newsom-on-his-childhood-personal-growth-and-teenage-wine-cellar.
Newsom has been married twice. He currently has four children with his wife Jennifer Siebel. His Mother passed away early on. She never knew his kids. His Father is still alive and struggles with dementia.

Best part is Newsom is putting extra efforts into supporting Children with Traumatic childhood pasts according to this article.