I don’t care if you’re shooting a big budget movie on the other side of the planet or a sitcom a few states away, you can and should always make time to go see you newborn baby. Modern commerical jets are amazing, you can get to the other side of the world in a few hours. He could have taken a day or two just to go see and hold his baby,fly back and then spend more time with his baby on the break. There’s nobody that can’t be spared for 48 hours for something that important. I’m sure the production people could find something that needed doing while he was gone, my god, it isn’t like him taking a day or two would cost everyone their jobs. Unless you’re one of our brave military people or a police officer facing down an armed gunman to protect the people in the community or a firefighter saving someone from a burning building, the “sorry, work is more important the seeing your precious little face for the first time” doesn’t ever cut it!

Celebritybabylover, I don’t get that either. How does any of this effect us? It’s their child and it seems like both are working on a situation that works for them which is a good thing. Some people forget that other people’s jobs depend on him being at work. It isn’t as simple as some of you are trying to make it seem

The first break probably means in a week or two, not six months! David has accepted responsibility for this unplanned baby and has keept in contact with the mom during pregnancy,so this probably means he`s going to be there for his daughter and play a large part in her childhood and upbringing.

This is my last thought on the situation ….. I’m sure that he doesn’t work 7days a week and imo family always come first! Other actors/athletes manage to get there when their children are born (just a thought). And no we don’t know all of the circumstances surrounding Jillian’s giving birth or their relationship at this time and it’s really none of our business, but honestly I think your child should ALWAYS come first. Congratulations and I hope we get to see pictures sometime.

Be a bit logical, people. The mum is in another state, it’s not as if he just can’t be assed driving across town. David is under a legal contract – he has work commitments which he can’t just break at a whim to fly across the country. If he did, he’d be letting the whole cast and crew down and costing them a lot of money, not to mention risking his employment. Actors and people who work in television are as much bound by work responsibilities and commitments as anyone else in another line of employment. They can’t just do what they please, rock up to work when they can be bothered and go AWOL for a few days whenever they fancy… not if they don’t want to be fired, anyway. Plus, it was the mum’s choice to move away to Missouri. It wasn’t David’s decision to be located in a different state than his child.

SH- I couldn’t have said it better myself! Everyone is criticizing David, when it very well could be that JILLIAN didn’t want him at the birth or in the first few days of their daughter’s life.

Everyone seems to assume that David’s not seeing his daughter immeditely is entirely his decision, when in fact it might not be.

Also, why is it always the man who is criticized in a situation like this? The only time I have ever heard a woman criticized in this same sort of situation was when Mel B. had Angel.

In that case, Mel was critcized quite a bit at first for having a baby with a man she’d only been with for a month. A few people even accused her of getting pregnant to “trap” Eddie!

As some other commentors have already pointed out, it takes two to make a baby! Why is it always the father that’s singled out?

i am appalled at the number of people on this site, who without knowing all the details, go about making rude and unnecessary comments….i am even more so appalled that people are being allowed to continue making these comments…how dare anyone make some of the comments that are being made, based on one small statement released by a publicist…no one here knows the whole story, so how can anyone judge him based on what you do know. How does anyone even know if SHE wanted him to come right after the birth…for all anyone knows maybe this was a plan that the two of them agreed upon…

quite frankly the on-going offensive and rude comments that i am encountering on this site are just giving me more reasons to stop visiting this site….

I just said that perhaps he used a webcam to see the baby from far away in case he couldn’t get out of work to see her. With technology today, he may have a ton of baby photos and videos already. I wasn’t comparing military parents to other working parents. I understand that military parents can’t get home right away to see new babies, but sometimes neither can other working parents.

Some of this comparing Colin Farrell to David workwise is ridiculous. Maybe David also has a tight filming schedule and just can’t get out right now. It makes sense to want to wrap up filming and THEN spend as much time as you want with your new baby.

It’s horrible that he’s put on the chopping block immediately when NONE of us know the entire personal story between Jillian and David. We just know what the media told us. At least give the man the benefit of the doubt before claiming how much he’s hated now and how he’s a deadbeat and such.

i am appalled at the number of people on this site, who without knowing all the details, go about making rude and unnecessary comments….i am even more so appalled that people are being allowed to continue making these comments…how dare anyone make some of the comments that are being made, based on one small statement released by a publicist…no one here knows the whole story, so how can anyone judge him based on what you do know. How does anyone even know if SHE wanted him to come right after the birth…for all anyone knows maybe this was a plan that the two of them agreed upon…

quite frankly the on-going offensive and rude comments that i am encountering on this site are just giving me more reasons to stop visiting this site….

I don’t have a problem stating my judgments against this. This guy’s on TMZ every nite, on video, out partying. It’s your first child, the TV show is filmed in the states, he has the money to get his own plane, he has the time to go out and party every night. So…yeah. no brainer. go see your baby.