How do we know? Because Steven’s daughter, Liv, said so.

Whether or not she was kidding, Liv Tyler recently told New York Magazine at the Brooklyn Artists Ball.

Steven Tyler, frontman for Aerosmith and current-season judge on American Idol definitely looks like he’s robbing his daughter’s closet, with his tight pants and pirate-like drop-neck shirts.

So, we don’t doubt it. But we’re also not putting more thought into it.

PRO TIP: Don’t wear your daughter’s clothes unless you’ve got a REALLY good reason to do so – one of which is because you’re the lead singer of a band that’s been around for more than 40 years.

Sauce: New York Magazine

Since we’re not above reading celebrity news, here’s a couple of stories in the news this morning…

Brittany Murphy’s Father Added to Death Certificate: Angelo Bertolotti, Brittany Murphy’s father (who divorced Murphy’s mother when Murphy was 2 years old) went to the Los Angeles County Registrar and had his name added to Murphy’s Death Certificate because he was having trouble being allowed to see his daughter’s grave at Forest Lawn Cemetery.

Michael Lohan “Breaks Into” Daughter Lindsay Lohan’s House: Lindsay hid in her closet while her father, Michael, banged on the front door and walked around back to peek into windows.

What’s that? You want to read some real fatherhood news and not just re-hashed celebrity garbage? No promises, it’s Monday.

What?

Michael Lohan, hated by his own drug-addicted daughter, is a recovering addict himself.

I can only imagine that Michael Lohan’s to-do list looks like this:

1) Do drugs

2) Get daughters to hate me

3) Open rehab yacht

4) ????

5) Profit

The worst part about all this is that he will also be on the next season of Dr. Drew Pinsky’s sham of a rehab show. Actually, that’s not the “worst part,” because having a worst means there’s got to be a best, and the only good part is that it’s Friday. BTW, I know this isn’t fatherhood news, but Lohan is a father. And in that picture, he’s wearing what some people would call a hood. It’s Friday.

Sauce: Broward Palm Beach New Times

There are a lot of complicated issues in fatherhood. Though many fathers don’t agree on all of the rights and wrongs of raising a child, everyone agrees on one thing: Billy Ray Cyrus really gets it.

JK LOL.

Billy Ray’s been in the news lately because 1) mullets are making a huge comeback, and 2) he’s aired out some regrets about how he raised Miley recently in an interview with GQ. In the interview, Billy Ray talks about how he wishes that the monolithic-ly popular Hannah Montana never happened, and that Miley’s name was initially Destiny Hope Cyrus – which is a pretty great name if you’re into symbolism and dreadlocks.

The best part about GQ’s interview is that it infuriated Miley.

Billy Ray also confirms that his family is under attack by Satan. Check out Townhall.com’s summary at the link below or the full interview at the link above.

Carl La Bove shared a lot of good times with his late friend Sam Kinison. Evidently, the two comics also shared women. La Bove, who owes over $188,000 in back child support to his ex-wife, might have something else “shared” that can help him in his financial woes: Kinison’s DNA.

La Bove has been in a 13-year-old agreement with his ex-wife to pay child support for their daughter. But La Bove says that he now has a DNA test (with DNA from Kinison’s brothers) that shows Kinison was actually the father of that now-21 year old daughter. If a court acknowledges Kinison as the father, La Bove hopes, the financial agreement can be terminated. La Bove has been without a driver’s license and has had adverse effects on his credit as a product of the financial burden.

During La Bove’s divorce, DNA paternity testing wasn’t offered. For years, even La Bove’s ex-wife suggested that Kinison was the father. Kinison’s brother helped La Bove out with an attorney during the divorce – which is a point of concern for La Bove now, as the attorney never suggested to challenge paternity.

The DNA test, BTW, shows that there’s a zero percent chance that La Bove is related to the daughter. It shows, however, that there is a 99.8% chance that Kinison’s brothers are.

Get the full story on Yahoo at the link below.

Sauce: Yahoo

Not that this is breaking news, but the Discovery Channel/TLC network has been making money off of a father-and-son struggle for years now, and the American public has eaten it up. Are we all proud of ourselves?

American Chopper started out as a show about a father-and-son team that built custom motorcycles for different companies and events. Over time, however, Paul Teutul and his son, Paul Jr., had a falling-out. Paul Sr. fired Paul Jr., and their business was split up. They now run competing bike shops in New York, and despite the father-son drama and lawsuit, cameras kept rolling, even when Paul Sr. had asked otherwise. Once Paul Jr. was past a lawsuit-mandated non-competition period, the network came to him, asking if he’d be building bikes again, and if so, if they could film him for the show. Paul Sr., less than four miles away in his own shop, told the show that he wasn’t interested in doing a show that pit father and son’s shops against each other. The network threatened to cancel Sr.’s portion of the show if he didn’t agree to it.

The rest, as they say, is history. Comments from both Sr. and Jr. seem to indicate that their relationship has been stressed more by the show’s constant filming, which is done in two separate locations by two separate crews.

Is the American Chopper storyline appropriate for television? Or should Paul Sr. and Jr. have focused on their private lives instead of making their now-ratings-snatching relationship a commodity?

Sauce: NY Times

The headline’s kind of the whole story.

I tried to write more, but that’s kind of it: Mike Tyson’s got another kid.

In other news, 8BitDad somehow became an entertainment news website this week. For the record, we’re sorry.

Sauce: Radar Online

“Not really.” Boom goes the dynamite.

And while Mike Dunleavy Jr. did say that if he were on a team coached by his father and winning, “to do it with your dad, that would be great,” Dunleavy Jr. did say that it’d cause problems otherwise. Fanhouse‘s Chris Tomasson seems to think that Dunleavy Sr. is more crazy about the idea than Jr., but from both of their quotes, it does seem like neither one is jumping at the chance.

Is that how it is in families where fathers coach their sons on a professional level?

Sauce: Fanhouse