{"id":89438,"date":"2026-05-03T05:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/nick-cannon-shares-dating-double-standard-he-has-for-twins\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:06:47","slug":"nick-cannon-shares-dating-double-standard-he-has-for-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/nick-cannon-shares-dating-double-standard-he-has-for-twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Cannon Shares Dating &#8216;Double Standard&#8217; He Has for Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Father of 12 <strong>Nick Cannon<\/strong> is opening up about the \u201cdouble standard\u201d he has for his 15-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe when it comes to dating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy son [Moroccan] has been dating, and I\u2019ve allowed it, I encouraged it,\u201d the <em>America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em> and <em>The Masked Singer<\/em> host, 45, said while appearing on the Saturday, May 2, episode of \u201cThe TMZ Podcast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the podcast host told the comedian they hope \u201cyou\u2019ve been allowing it and encouraging that\u201d for his daughter Monroe, too, Cannon abruptly responded, \u201cNo, absolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, it\u2019s absolutely a double standard,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd I know I get in trouble a lot \u2018cause I say things with my chest. But there is a difference when parenting a son and then when parenting a daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nick-Cannon-and-Mariah-Careys-Twins-Think-Having-So-Many-Siblings-Is-Fun.jpg?crop=0px%2C10px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Nick Cannon and Mariah Careys Twins Think Having So Many Siblings Is Fun\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Nick-Cannon-and-Mariah-Careys-Twins-Think-Having-So-Many-Siblings-Is-Fun.jpg?quality=78&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">How Nick Cannon, Mariah Carey\u2019s Kids Feel About Having So Many Siblings<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tJim Ruymen\/UPI\/Shutterstock Loving it! Nick Cannon revealed that his and Mariah Carey\u2019s 11-year-old twins, Moroccan and Monroe, are fans of having a bigger brood \u2014 including their various younger siblings. \u201cAt this point, they enjoy it. They have fun and they\u2019re the oldest. But who knows where that will go when 16 hits,\u201d Cannon, 42, [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The comedian and actor added, \u201cI am more protective of my daughter because there [are] things out there that I have to protect my daughter from. Like, as we know, there are a certain type of individuals that you want to keep your daughter away from.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4325525\" style=\"width: 693px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:147.85714285714%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4325525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"GettyImages-2263967121 nick cannon double standard dating twins\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=55&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=47&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=62&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Nick Cannon<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Cannon shares Moroccan and Monroe with ex-wife <strong>Mariah Carey<\/strong>. The <em>Wild n\u2019 Out<\/em> star also shares sons Golden Saigon and Rise Messiah and daughter Powerful Queen with <strong>Brittany Bell<\/strong>; twin sons Zion Mixolydian and Zillion Heir and daughter Beautiful Zeppelin with <strong>Abby De La Rosa<\/strong>; son Legendary Love with <strong>Bre Tiesi<\/strong>; daughter Onyx Ice Cole with <strong>LaNisha Cole<\/strong>; and daughter Halo Marie with <strong>Alyssa Scott<\/strong>. He and Scott are also parents to son Zen, who died in December 2021 of a brain tumor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf somebody puts their hands on my daughter, I\u2019m going to jail,\u201d Cannon continued on Saturday. \u201cIf some man puts his hands on my daughter, it\u2019s my worst nightmare because I am going to jail forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>During a September 15, 2025, interview on \u201cThe Breakfast Club,\u201d Cannon \u2014 who has received plenty of criticism for having a dozen children with multiple women \u2014 described his fatherhood as a \u201ctrauma\u201d response to his breakup with Carey, 57.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Nick-Cannon-Reveals-His-Biggest-Guilt-Over-Having-11-Children-Masked-Singer-2021.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C1333px%2C753px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Nick Cannon Reveals His Biggest Guilt Over Having 11 Children Masked Singer 2021\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Nick-Cannon-Reveals-His-Biggest-Guilt-Over-Having-11-Children-Masked-Singer-2021.jpg?quality=86&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Nick Cannon Reveals His \u2018Biggest Guilt\u2019 Over Having 11 Children<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tWords of wisdom! Nick Cannon has spoken fondly of fatherhood since becoming a parent in 2011. The Masked Singer host and Mariah Carey welcomed their twins in April of that year, naming the little ones Moroccan and Monroe. \u201cThe thing with twins is that you want them in their natural incubator as long as possible,\u201d [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t get a chance to slow down until I got in therapy,\u201d Cannon said at the time. \u201cBut I was just like, \u2018Look, I just got to keep making money. I got to stay hot. I got to stay funny.\u2019 And everything else figured itself out. And I just didn\u2019t do the work. So then I looked up with 12 kids later. Wow, I could have did things very differently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cBut I stand firm on all of my decisions because I love all my kids. I love my family infrastructure. But I know it all started from a place of pain and not really healing properly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Father of 12 Nick Cannon is opening up about the \u201cdouble standard\u201d he has for his 15-year-old twins Moroccan and Monroe when it comes to dating. \u201cMy son [Moroccan] has been dating, and I\u2019ve allowed it, I encouraged it,\u201d the America\u2019s Got Talent and The Masked Singer host, 45, said while appearing on the Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2263967121-nick-cannon-double-standard-dating-twins.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}