JonBenet Ramsey died in vain...

[Timster]

Exploitation! @ No less than child pornography. *Spit!*

[Sean]

Now, I ask you; Where are the pageants for boys? If this is good parenting, why aren't the male children receiving it?

They're out there... pageants for mums and dads too...

[Big RR]

the boys al vie for the coveted Michael Jackson trophy, which used to come with a free trip to Neverland--not sure now.

[Gob]

Nailed it O-n-W.

[Gob]

Sickening!!

CHILD welfare authorities in the United States are investigating a mother who appeared on national television injecting her eight-year-old daughter with the anti-wrinkle treatment Botox.
Trent Rhorer, executive director of the San Francisco Human Services Agency, said officials wanted to talk to Kerry Campbell and her daughter Britney.

''It's pretty unusual for a mum to be injecting an eight-year-old with Botox and certainly is grounds for an investigation,'' Mr Rhorer said on US television.

The mother and her daughter appeared on Good Morning America last week, Ms Campbell explaining how she injected Britney with Botox so she could compete in child beauty pageants. She said the treatment was used by other parents on the beauty pageant circuit.

''It's a tough world in the pageant world, I'm telling you,'' Ms Campbell said. ''The kids are harsh.''

A US-style children's beauty pageant planned for Melbourne in July is facing a groundswell of opposition from community groups.



Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/wellbei ... z1MNP24d4E

[The Hen]

Absolutely disgusting.

[oldr_n_wsr]

''The kids are harsh.''

And the mothers are...what????

Is it legal for an untrained, non-medical person to inject someone else with botox?

And again I ask, "Where are the dads?"

[The Hen]

I believe in this case Ms Campbell is a single mother.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I believe in this case Ms Campbell is a single mother.

And her birth father has no say in this? Courts got his tongue?

I don't care if my wife were raising my kid by herself (of course I wouldn't have that even if we were divorced/seperated) I would not allow this kind of abuse to my child.

And I am sure there are plenty of other traditional families (although "traditional" seems to be changing according to an article I read in sundays newspapaer) involved in this kiddie pornfest pageantry.

[The Hen]

It may be that her birth father was never told he was a father.

[loCAtek]

Now, I ask you; Where are the pageants for boys? If this is good parenting, why aren't the male children receiving it?

They're out there... pageants for mums and dads too...

It's the children we're concerned about; source for boys pageants?

[The Hen]

Google is your friend.

[loCAtek]

Hmmm, let me be more specific;

Where's the boys pageants where they don't look like boys, but over-dressed, highly made-up, sexualized fantasy versions of stolen childhoods?

[The Hen]

Ummm, most men don't wear make-up so it doesn't equate that the boys would be overly made-up.

The whole point is dressing the little cherubs up as adults.

[alice]

Where's the boys pageants where they don't look like boys, but over-dressed, highly made-up, sexualized fantasy versions of stolen childhoods?

I'm not sure why it's relevant to the discussion, but I think this addresses yyour comment. There's been a couple of notable boy entries in the Toddlers and Tiaras series (I did a quick search).

Zanda is five and has been in over 60 pageants

Zander gets a manicure, picks green nail polish. “Anything that pampers Zander, Zander likes,” his mom smiles. Kid’s got the right idea.

http://thelaughingstork.com/2010/06/tod ... do-things/

This week we met the adorable Zander, who is as pageant-perfect as any girl. Nail polish, lip gloss and eyeliner were all part of the 5-year-old's regime, which is orchestrated by his quick-tempered mother.


Zander, who has done at least 60 pageants in his short life, says he doesn't like to lose because: "I don't like to lose because my mom might be sad".

http://thestir.cafemom.com/entertainmen ... ap_pageant

and this is also about Zander...
http://www.tvgasm.com/recaps/toddlers-a ... d-heifers/

And also on Toddlers and Tiara's, Hayden and Maverick's mum

these are my girls that I never had so I'll just turn them into girls

http://tlc.discovery.com/videos/toddler ... s-mom.html


Granted, there aren't as many boys entering, but those who have entered have mums just as whacked out as the mum's of the little girls who entered.

edited to clarify it a bit

[The Hen]

Mum's with "issues" are more likely to dress up girls, than boys. it is the nature of the Mother.

I am sure we have all met horrendous Mother's at some point in our lives.

I have met some appearance dwelling mother's of school friends of the Hatch. It was a horrible waste of my time in acknowledging their presence.

[alice]

Mum's with "issues" are more likely to dress up girls, than boys. it is the nature of the Mother.

I am sure we have all met horrendous Mother's at some point in our lives.

In the area I live there are a lot of teenage mums. There is a reasonably high proportion of them who, if they have girls, want to do all the dress up stuff with them - because they want the girls to become their 'bff' as well as mother/daughter.
Although this sort of behaviour isn't just confined to teenage mums, of course - it's just that some of them make an easy example.

[Gob]

[oldr_n_wsr]

This seems worse than sports dads. But that's just my opinion.

[BoSoxGal]

I hope mom puts a side a good chunk of the kids earnings for the therapy she's going to need.

People talk about fathers living precariously (sp?) through their sons athletic accomplishements.

And where is dad in all this?

I believe you meant vicariously, oldr - but, using 'precariously' is a quite insightful error, isn't it?

vicarious: 2: performed or suffered by one person as a substitute for another or to the benefit or advantage of another : substitutionary <a vicarious sacrifice> 3: experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another <a vicarious thrill>

precarious: 1: depending on the will or pleasure of another