While debt doesn’t directly transfer to a person’s kids, their debts absolutely can become their kids’ problem via the estate, depending on the type of debt and situation.

Yes!! HIS MOM JUST DIED. Back off.

Exactly! he is successful in his own right, hes not some freeloading “heir”. Jezebel is going down the tubes lately. 

Of course literally giving birth is not the only basis of motherhood, but that is not what I said. What I said was that Caitlyn fathered her children, in that she supplied the sperm to help create them. It is not transphobic in the slightest to state that fact.

Yeah I’m over this kind of snark, he had no control over what his mother’s wishes were, what’s he supposed to do? I used to think old Jez was heavy on the snark but I was wrong.

He’s an objectively good human being who has worked hard in his chosen career, including putting himself in real danger to report the news. He’s good looking, successful, not afraid to show his love, and he just lost his mother. But he’s rich so snark is on point, right?

That doesn’t impact the fact that, when in doubt, gender neutrality is the safest way to go. 

Cooper has been crystal clear about being fully aware of his extreme good luck in all aspects of the birth lottery. However, family wealth did not keep his dad from dying young, it didn’t keep his brother from committing suicide in front of his mother. Extreme wealth doesn’t shield anyone from illness or depression,…

1 more vote not to mock people suffering the loss of a loved one.

Caitlyn herself has told her children that she will always be their dad.

I’m concerned (not hand-wringingly so) about both the compensation and the systemic reasons why a woman would choose to become a surrogate. As in, would they make different choices if there were other viable income options that paid livable wages? 

First, hephep might’ve just been saying that in a tongue-in-cheek way, but second, I believe debt has to be settled before any assets are inherited. But I’ve never really dealt with any of this so I could be wrong. 

“I’m not sure I would call exploitation, but all the risks were mainly taken by the mother.” - I think that would fit many peoples idea of what exploitation is.

I’m a recent AC360 convert. Watched last night as he deliciously took down the Donald’s Emmy dreams by flippantly announcing “I have 16 but who’s counting?”

Gloria Vanderbilt was cut off from her wealthy family when she married Anderson Cooper’s father, who I believe was a writer and actor from Mississippi. She amassed a huge amount of that fortune by convincing many people in the 1970's, including me, to wear fancy jeans with her name stitched on the back pocket. She had…

He did serious journalism in dangerous areas and actually had a hard time getting his first job...he does a lot of charity work now too. 

I.. don't get the Anderson Cooper snark. His mother just passed and she left him, HER SON, her estate? Groundbreaking.  Are yall just shitting on things to be edgy now? 

I gotta say, a modest midtown penthouse is nothing to scoff at! I would be thrilled to have one passed down to me. 

Remember him carrying that bloody Haitian boy to safety? 

i think that is a great way to raise your kid.. like hey— you aren’t getting anything. go earn a living, be successful on your own... then SURPRISE! Here is a little something... or a lot of something.