Overview
- In a CBS Sunday Morning interview, the 74-year-old musician reiterated that his six adult children will not inherit his wealth.
- He called telling a child “you don’t have to work” a “form of abuse” and said he trusts his kids to make their own way.
- He said he covers their upbringing and education and would help only if they were in serious trouble, adding, “I’m spending our money.”
- He praised their “extraordinary work ethic” and discussed the stance while promoting his STING 3.0 tour and his stage musical The Last Ship, which has a June 9 date at New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
- He first set out this view in 2014, rejecting trust funds as “albatrosses,” and has repeated it in later interviews as his consistent approach to parenting and money.