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Parenting & Family Quote by Burt Ward

"I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child"

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Burt Ward delivers this with the breezy confidence of someone who’s been rewarded for charm, not for precision. The setup looks like a thoughtful pivot to “generations,” then he swerves into a punchline that’s half-stand-up, half-brag: a self-branded “philosophy” of fatherhood on a 25-year schedule. The humor is in the faux-gravitas. He frames biology and life decisions like a quirky lifestyle plan, as if spacing kids were a fitness regimen or a franchise strategy.

The subtext is less about family than about identity maintenance. Ward, forever culturally tethered to a youthful Robin image, is playing with time: 25-year increments become a way to stay contemporaneous, to keep one foot in the present even as the past calcifies around a celebrity persona. There’s also a quiet, telling gendered slip: “I have two children” becomes “I have a daughter... and a daughter,” then “I’m going to sire another child.” The language shifts from intimate relationship (daughter) to lineage and virility (sire), hinting at an old-school script where fatherhood doubles as proof of ongoing relevance.

Context matters: pop-culture actors often survive by converting their personal lives into anecdotes that read well in interviews. This isn’t policy, it’s performance - a way to turn the mundane math of age gaps into a memorable soundbite. It lands because it’s slightly absurd, slightly vain, and oddly sincere in its desire to outrun the clock.

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Ward, Burt. (2026, January 16). I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-two-children-i-have-a-daughter-29-and-a-139056/

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Ward, Burt. "I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-two-children-i-have-a-daughter-29-and-a-139056/.

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"I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-have-two-children-i-have-a-daughter-29-and-a-139056/. Accessed 6 Feb. 2026.

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Burt Ward (born July 6, 1945) is a Actor from USA.

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