Mother gives 8 year old Botox – seriously?
As many of us may have read in the recent news headlines, a mother has been giving her 8 year old daughter Botox injections and waxing her body hair for beauty pageants.I guess we can all assume, like any mother she loves her child and wants the best for her. It seems, like most parents she has seen that her child possesses a talent/strength (her beauty in this case) and wants her to prevail in this field. So some may say she is only encouraging and directing her daughter toward a brighter, more successful career by ‘enhancing’ her beauty, and therefore enhancing her chances of being successful… I however thought this was outrageous when I first read the headlines.
I cannot comprehend how a mother can desire to insert a needle into her child’s face in order to ‘enhance’ her beauty. The claim that ‘wrinkles don’t look nice on children’ is insane. I didn’t know children even had noticeable wrinkles on their faces! A child is beautiful, pristine and pure as they are without any modifications and interferences. It seems almost inhumane to me that someone could do this to an innocent and perfectly formed little girl. Not to mention the future health problems it could pose for such a young, fragile and still forming body.
What is more scary though, is when we look a little further into this. The reason for this incredible behavior is in the name of beauty pageants. I for one was never for adult beauty pageants, let alone beauty pageants for little girls under the age of 10! In my view beauty pageants reduce females to little more than the makeup they wear and the physique they possess. How can we pretend to value a woman for who she is and not WHAT she is when they display themselves on a stage like dolls, exploiting all of their femininity in order to be crowned ‘beauty queen’. The whole concept is beyond me.
We live in a world forcing children to grow and behave older than their years, with barbie dolls impossibly proportioned, shops selling bras for girls as young as 8, and with clothes baring words like ‘little miss naughty’ and other suggestive words.
There are more teen pregnancies than ever before, more STD’s and certainly more rapes taking place every day in the UK and the States. Is this not to be expected considering how even the parents are now bringing up their children, not to mention the fashion trends and the types of love affairs and inappropriate characters we see in even children’s films (Bratz to name one example).
Are we losing all sense of human value or is it just me?
