Sick Joke!

OK.  This botox-beauty-pageant-momma-that-wasn't story?  Give me a break!

Of course, by now, you will have heard that this woman coped to the fact that she made it all up, for a substantial fee form some British tabloid.  Again, Give me a break!  So this woman lied to everyone, and coerced her 8 year old daughter to lie right along with her.  To me, that still constitutes child abuse.  Definitely its neglectful--she is not teaching her daughter how to be a positive, upright citizen.  She is teaching her to be a lying, greedy, media-grubbing cheat.

It makes me sick, and more than a little sad.

In my own extended family, I have seen the beginnings of a similar incident.   A parent, in an attempt to hurt the opposite parent, coached the child to lie.  In our family's case, it was in a court of law.  There is no respect of the other parent being taught, no respect for the authority of police being taught and certainly no respect for the child's own sense of self.

In a world where people will flagrantly text while driving a car, and the San Francisco city council is trying to outlaw circumcision for anyone under the age of 18 for any reason, and if you want to be "rich and famous" you just have to do something outrageous on video--it makes me wonder what our society is really in for.  It can't be good.

Teaching kids to lie must just be part of the deviation society is accepting easier and easier.  Still, it makes me sick.