Generational wealth doesn’t always come earmarked for the next generation.
Sting has signaled that he isn’t setting his six kids up for life, explaining on CBS Sunday Morning May 3 that he considers telling one’s children that they don’t have to work to be “a form of abuse.”
Luckily, his two kids with ex-wife Frances Tomelty and four with wife Trudie Styler inherited an “extraordinary work ethic,” the Police alum noted, and he didn’t find it “cruel” to lay down the law in that way.
“I think that’s there’s a kindness there,” Sting, born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, explained, “and a trust in in them that they will make their own way. They’re tough, my kids.”
Meanwhile, Joe Sumner, 49, Fuschia Sumner Wright, 44, Mickey Sumner, 42, Jake Sumner, 40, Eliot Sumner, 35, and Giacomo Sumner, 30, aren’t exactly children anymore, either, and they have all been keeping busy.
But Sting is hardly the only wealthy famous parent in the world who wants his kids to bank on their own futures.