The media today is constantly bashing Britney Spear’s troubled life. The media focuses on her inability to maintain certain decorum and her custody battle to keep her children. Recently, Britney’s younger sister was exploited throughout the magazines revealing that she is pregnant and due this summer. Some blame these siblings for all their mishaps and forget who the real people responsible for their outcomes are: their parents. Parents have the responsibility to raise their children in a manner that provides not only essential needs like clothing, food, medical care, etc, as well as life lessons and rules in order to help guide their child on the right path for their future. However, the Spears parents failed this guidance terribly, and because of this lack of discipline, their children’s lives are falling apart.
In the last year alone, Britney had gone through a traumatic experience with the custody over her children. But her trouble did not start with her kids. A few years ago, Britney eloped in Vegas, and then broke it off after 48 hours. Of course, she stated that she was too drunk to have actually remembered or agreed to the eloping. At that point, Britney’s parents should have been there to stop her wild partying and bring some guidance and advice to change her life for the better. But her parents never helped her change. Now, Britney is undergoing custody issues with her ex-husband, having medical examinations telling her that she is bipolar, and the media is only making it worse. If Britney’s parents want to save their daughter, they need to act quickly and show her the support and guidance that was always missing.
Because Britney had such a terrible upbringing, her sister, Jamie, who had no role model to look up to decided to live with her 19 year-old boy friend. Of course, within months, Jamie was pregnant. At first I was shocked. I thought of Jamie is a sweet innocent “Zoey 101” teenage girl who had all the right values in life. Soon I realized that she never had any guidance from her parent or sister. Because of this neglection, Jamie had no idea of the serious risks she has just placed before her. At first, Jamie exclaimed that she was going to get married this summer to the boyfriend that got her pregnant. Less than a month after that statement, Jamie withdrew her statement and said that the marriage was off. Again, we see that there are no parents helping Jamie with her life. She has no one to show her what is right or wrong.
At some level, I do not blame Jamie or Britney for the terrible situations they have put themselves into. Still, these sisters should know better than to shave their head for attention or get pregnant at 16. Most of this is common knowledge. However, with the lack of parenting in the world today, many teens have no role models to look to for guidance and when they are placed in a serious situation they do not always know the right thing to do.
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Hey Orly,
Your blog was really interesting to read. I agree with some of the things you said. First of all, I felt the same exact way when Jaime Lynn Spears got pregnant. Before she did, I had so much respect for her because I thought that with such a messed up sister, she had such great values and I was so proud of her that she was not messed up. When I found out she was pregnant, however, I lost all my respect for her. I do agree that their parents are the reason for this and that they should have been there to do something about it, but I think that at this point in their lives it is too late for them to do anything, along with the fact that, legally, they do not have to do anything like that for Brittney because of her age. They should have looked out for them more and taught them better values when they were younger. It is really sad how messed up their family is, and I am sure there are other families out there like that that we do not know about because they are not famous.
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