For some reason this story reminds me of the Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings song, Mamma, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys.

Only we need to change the lyrics a bit and replace cowboys with Elijah Dukes.

Dukes, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays rookie who has a long history of trouble with the law and women, is an enormously talented athlete, and a spoiled and obnoxious _______ (fill in the blank).

His mother's comment after it was revealed that Dukes has fathered yet another child - six with five women in four years - with a 17-year-old who was in foster care with his step-grandmother is an outrageous example of the attitude that encourages some men to believe they are not responsible for those little sperm after ejaculation - or the pregnancy that might ensue if one of them scores with an egg.

Said Phyllis Dukes, “Every time one of those (whores) lays down with my baby, they end up pregnant. That’s right. And I’m tired of them.”

I asked on Sticks of Fire, was poor Elijah never filled in about the birds and the bees? Didn’t he know that sex leads to pregnancy? And babies? Didn’t anyone tell him to just say no? Or keep it zipped? Or take a cold shower. Or think of England. Or wear protection? Or was he raised to believe that because he’s a talented athlete, he should have everything and everyone at his beck and call - without suffering any consequences?

I suspect the latter.

But the other unanswerable question is, why do women raise sons like that?

Let me know if you have an answer.