Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are divorced and currently co-parent their children. When their eldest daughter was born, Affleck spoke about how much he liked being a father. He admitted that it was much easier to be a parent when he had a partner like Garner.
Ben Affleck complimented Jennifer Garner as a mother Not long after the birth of their first child, Violet , Affleck spoke about the joys of parenthood. He said it completely changed his life. “I love being a father, it’s wonderful.
It’s changed my life,” he said in a 2006 press conference for the movie Hollywoodland , per IGN . “It all sounds like platitudes and clichés because they’re true.” He admitted that it helped to have a wife who was as good of a parent as Garner is.
“It fast became the most important thing in my life and I reorganized my priorities instantly in a way that feels really good. I love that,” he said. “My wife is spectacular, a spectacular mother, spectacular everything, so that’s really nice.
” He said that she doesn’t think quite so highly of him as a father While Affleck praised Garner’s abilities as a mother, he joked that people shouldn’t turn to him for advice on fatherhood. He didn’t even think that Garner trusted him much. “Two days ago my wife had to go to work.
I was there,” he said, adding, “I was taking care of the baby. I was trying to make sure everything was going to be okay. She said, ‘Okay, I’m running out,’ she gave me the baby.
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