Posted on 06/14/2004 8:09:42 AM PDT by KMC1
Parents giving breast implants to their 18 year old daughters as graduation presents. I think THIS is freaky. But beyond that I think it shows an incredible inability by parents to determine for themselves much less help their children - especially their daughters decipher what is "best".
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Completely disgusting. Also here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1153080/posts
best news i heard all day!!! (just kidding)
Doh! Why didn't I think of this? Silly me, I gave my daughter some money to go to college.
There was an article a few years back in my hometown paper about how parents were doing this to their 15-16 year old girls. And in some cases the mothers were arranging it without the fathers' knowledge. Hope those girls sue their parents when they're old enough. The 18 year olds, on the other hand, are legally responsible, and won't have any recourse.
Of course it's freaky. It's also a trend out of someone's imagination.
"Since we know from your grades that you are dumber than a box of rocks, you'll have to make it on your looks, honey. Have some bigger boobs for graduation, m'kay?"
Yeah, real smart parents you got there, lass. We see why you need to make it on your looks. /rant off/
This could be an investment by the parents for their daughters college fund. Now they can get a job at the local strip bar and pay cash for their education instead of taking out student loans. Why graduate in debt. </sarcasm off>
Does she realize what she is giving up?
All breast surgery, including implants, can interfere with a woman’s ability to breast-feed a baby. Women with implants are less likely to be able to nurse than women who have not had breast surgery.
And we wonder why so many young people are confused with no real direction. These are the parents of today?
I'm glad I had the ones I had....all they gave me for graduation was a cedar chest (or hope chest as it was called) which I still have today after forty-eight years. Shucks, it's ONLY filled with mementos of bridal showers, wedding, baby items,parent memories and a whole host of other things. Not much for a graduation present is it? Wow, and to think I could have had breast implants instead.
How could my parents have been so selfish and old fashioned to have given me just a wooden chest that holds memories instead of a FAKE CHEST like these young women are getting. They are SOOO lucky.
Uh, Callista needs a complete body implant. Thin is one thing, however, being a stick figure is another.
We should try a Fat-a-Thon for her, people like Michael Moore and a few others could go on TV and pledge to donate a few pounds here and a few pounds there.
What a nice present as they take their first steps into the real world. Hope these same parents don't complain about the real-world results...
Yeah...but they get a lot more free meals at nice restaurants with fine wine and if they are really lucky...an STD.
I reek of cynicism.
As someone who grew up in the South and now lives in the bay area, this is not surprising to me, given the interaction between parents and children I've witnessed since I moved out here four years ago. The attitude people have in the bay area about their children is totally foreign to me. There seems to be an over riding desire to be friends with their children rather than responsible stewards and disciplinarians guiding these kids to responsible adulthood.
Give her a cheese steak or a big sub.
my almost 16 yo spoke about this subject to me, last weekend. she said that parent's time for being cool has PASSED and that they need to just get over it and be parents. : )
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