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Happy Father's Day

Originally posted Thursday December 08, 2005 12:00 PM EST

Pitt arrived with Zahara at Toyko's Narita International Airport Nov. 27, as he and Jolie prepared to promote Mr. and Mrs. Smith in Japan. Photo by: SHIZUO KAMBAYASHI / AP

But since Pitt turned 40 in 2003, his interest in fatherhood intensified. "It's time. . . . I just feel I have something to offer them, that I would be a responsible guy through life now," he said recently. After visiting AIDS- and poverty-stricken children in Africa last year, Pitt told GQ that adoption "makes all the sense in the world," adding that he embraced "the responsibility of putting your life second, and your job is to show this little one around the world."

Few parents take those words quite so literally. Since the start of their relationship, Pitt has squired Jolie and her kids to Kenya, England, Ethiopia, Canada, Tokyo and Pakistan, where they spent Thanksgiving. The couple are rarely seen in public without at least one of the children at their side (and more frequently, in Pitt's arms).

Whether tenderly suiting Maddox up (including safety helmet, of course) for a dirt-bike ride near Jolie's Buckinghamshire, England, home in June or playing with Zahara outside his Malibu home, Pitt seems at ease with parenthood.

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