Ben Affleck is doing his best to be a good father and husband. Jennifer Garner should be happy that he is trying to reduce the load on her by taking four-year old Violet out with him.

Notice that both father and daughter look extremely unhappy.

Actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have always been close but it turns out the two buddies are actually distant cousins.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society revealed that the good friends are actually 10th cousins once removed. Affleck and Damon share a common 10th great-grandfather, William Knowlton of Ipswich. Ipsich was a bricklayer who died in 1655.

“We suspected they might be related since both of them had ancestry going back to colonial New England,” said geneologist Chris Child, who did the research along with colleague Rhonda McClure .

Matt and Ben are related on their fathers’ side, said McClure.

Raising normal kids in abnormal circumstances is something most celebrity parents will struggle with at some point, but Jennifer Garner notes in a new interview that normal is a relative term.

Although she laments the lack of laws in place to protect the privacy of Violet Anne, 3 ½, and Seraphina Rose Elizabeth, 8 ½ months, she nonetheless believes they have enjoyed “a very normal upbringing.”

“They do have things that are really exciting for them and strange for them, I’m sure. Like living in a different place for a while then going back home. But kids have that with parents with all different jobs so I try not to look at it as something that is a problem. But kids are kids, they think whatever goes on in their lives is normal.”

When asked to describe her perfect day, the 37-year-old actress depicts something that sounds quite normal indeed: Some quality time with each daughter, and then playtime together, followed by a home-cooked meal “where there’s enough [food] left over for another day” and “a glass of wine and a conversation” with husband Ben Affleck.

Mom-of-two Jennifer Garner was pregnant and dealing with bouts of morning sickness while she was filming her new movie, The Invention of Lying - though nobody knew it at the time.

The film’s director Matthew Robinson tells the New York Post that the movie star mom did a good job of keeping the baby news a secret on the set, saying, “We didn’t notice because she came out every morning smiling. We only found out when it was announced in the press.”

Jennifer and her husband Ben Affleck are parents to girls Violet, 3, and Seraphina, 9 months.