Ben Affleck doesn't want his kids to follow in his footsteps. "You put something on your children when you have a public life, and that's complicated," Affleck, 53, told E! News in an interview published Wednesday, January 14, while discussing his three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. "We really want to give them room to figure out what they want to do." Affleck, who shares Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 13, with Garner, 53, said he would never "push" his children to become actors like their famous parents.