Host of Channel Nine’s Today show, Lisa Wilkinson, and the Mixed Grill team have weighed in on Rachael Finch‘s Sunday Style interview, in which the 27-year-old model revealed she and husband Michael Miziner spend their weekends child free.
Finch explained that two-year-old daughter Violet stays with Miziner’s mother, Irena, from Friday afternoon until Sunday morning to allow Finch and her husband quality time together.
Finch says it’s a system that is “incredibly healthy for the relationship”.
Wilkinson asked the panel – which included guest journalists Phoebe Burgess and Sarrah Le Marquand: “Do you have a problem with this?”
For Burgess, it's a tough one.
"I think when I first read it I was initially very shocked," Burgess said, adding that as a woman who is looking forward to having children it "gave me a bit of a fright".
"If you're offloading your kids every weekend, they're obviously a bit of an energy drain," she said.
But upon considering the topic a little more, Burgess says she believes Finch is "trying to establish a modern relationship which finds the balance between children, her schedule, and her partner."
However she sees potential for the arrangement to become "problematic" for Finch and Miziner in the future.
"I think when (Violet) gets older that lumping her off to grandma every weekend could become problematic."