Our nominees for family of the year

Just kidding, why is this even an “award” or distinction? Anyways, Ben, Jen and their daught Violet were out at Barneys getting a little shopping done. Say what you will about his acting skills but Ben Affleck does seem to have a decent head on his shoulders:

He also spoke out about not selling baby Violet’s pictures to magazines: “”We just didn’t sell them — that was the thing. I’m extraordinarily lucky and privileged and I’ve tried not to be bitter, but I have developed a reactionary defensiveness. But for my child, she didn’t make the bargain I did. She didn’t make that choice. And I don’t want her to have to pay for the parents’ sins. I try to protect her privacy. I’ll end up in the magazines, and that’s life, and I can live with it, but I try to shield my daughter.”

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