My respect for Shanna Moakler recently increased significantly in light of her response to the whole Carrie Prejean scandal. She was articulate and intelligent in her reasons for leaving her position as co-director of the Miss California USA pageant. But that doesn’t mean that she makes good decisions at home. Shanna, who had a “divorce party” for herself after she and ex-husband Travis Barker split (complete with a wedding cake with a bleeding groom on top) has never had much luck in the love department, and her relationship with Travis is far from functional. After Travis survived a tragic plane crash along with DJ AM, the couple decided to remarry. Nothing like a near-death experience to make you value the people in your life. Travis also threw Shanna a huge birthday smash for her 34th. But soon after, photos came out of Shanna macking on Gerard Butler and the wedding was called off. Shanna, of course, denied the cheating rumors through the press.

Travis Barker also seems to have some maturity issues, as he too is using the media, specifically his Twitter account, to lash out at his ex. In his recent tweets, he has accused Shanna of being a “deadbeat mom” who is only looking for “attention and money,” and who doesn’t spend time with her kids.

In the latest round of fighting, Travis decided he wanted to take a shot at the mother of his children. He did so via a Twitter because, what good is it trashing your wife unless you can let the world in on your loathing.

“Kids are not to be used as weapons. Deadbeat moms that sleep all day, seeking money, attention like 2 do so. Just hurts the kids in the end.”

That was his first blast of the day and what he is forgetting is that he has now told his kids that he considers their mom to be a deadbeat who is lazy and wants nothing more than attention. I’m not sure that doesn’t hurt your kids in the end, but hey, Travis knows best right?

Apparently he still had another 140 characters in him because he followed up with that message with this one a short time later.

“Giving birth 2 a child doesn’t make u a good mom. Taking care of them, loving them, waking up with them, spending time with them does.”

[from Crazy Days and Nights]

I checked out Shanna and Travis‘ Twitter accounts, and I found some interesting back-and-forth between fans. A few days ago, Shanna commented that ” ‘Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down…just get back up, when it knocks u down’ – keri hilson.” Then a fan of Travis’ told him that she hoped he and Shanna were still friends, and Travis responded that “The female who said it is lucky i don’t put her on blast. She likes the attention or i would. Glad i am rid of her now.” But now Travis has put her on blast.

The maturity level here is really incredible. Fighting publicly about your ex-spouse’s ability to take care of your children is such a low blow. In the end, it’s the Twitter that hurts the kids.

Here’s Shanna at Us Weekly’s Hot 100 party in April. Images thanks to WENN.com .