Most spoilt child in Britain?

[Flyndaran]

Sorry, was speaking in generalities, not specific to this case, since there was the subtangent of barbiegirl's, and then Flyn assuming you need to be like, old old to have maturity and life experience.

Not old old, but over 30 usually.

[Nyoibo]

Ah, gotcha.

[BroomJockey]

Not old old, but over 30 usually.

Over 30 IS old old. For another 4 years.

[Barbiegirl]

The risk of birth defects, especially down's syndrome, increases the older a woman is when she gives birth. Until we get genetic engineering down, I would prefer to limit the number of deformities in the future.

True but she's only 28 now, which means she was 17 when she had the kid. If she had waited until she was around 23 she would have had the chance to get a job and pay bills and had a better head on her shoulders.
It's usually the late 30's early 40's that more of the birth defects show up.

[Flyndaran]

True but she's only 28 now, which means she was 17 when she had the kid. If she had waited until she was around 23 she would have had the chance to get a job and pay bills and had a better head on her shoulders.
It's usually the late 30's early 40's that more of the birth defects show up.

I stand corrected.

[Lace Neil Singer]

In any case, this topic isn't about birth defects or old mothers vs young mothers; it's about the lifestyle choice of spoiling an 11 year old rotten with material goods.

I can't help but wonder what will happen when this child starts secondary school; will her possessions be stolen or damaged? She's supposedly a "ringleader" in primary school; that to my mind, usually means "bully".

[XCashier]

I can also foresee many problems with her sister; yeah, now she doesn't like designer labels, being only five; however when she gets older and sees her sister being spoiled rotten with expensive stuff and not her, she's going to get very resentful and jealous. I personally think it's incredibly stupid, even verging on spiteful, to favour a child over another like this.

That really bothered me too. Bad enough the parents are stupidly spoiling one child, they've gone completely the other direction with the second. Favoring one child over another, especially to those extremes, can create a lot of tension and resentment in a family. It can also lead to feelings of self-hatred and worthlessness, possibly leading to suicide.

Those parents are profoundly, severely stupid, and the kids will bear the brunt of it.

[Wingates_Hellsing]

Hopefully, the deprived one will go on to be a mature and successful individual, after all, it's her turn. If the other one ends up in the gutter, I can't say I'd care that much, but she's still human.

Even more hopefully, the parents will run out of money when the spoilt one starts needing cars (yeah, plural) and houses (plural again ) and manage to get a picture of their faces when the repo man comes a knocking.

...I'm an unkind person

Seriously though, I just can't wrap my head around the insanity of these parent's attitude. It's like the usual motivation to make your childs life better taken to the most ill executed extreme in the history of bad plans. Do they not have freinds to tel them what they're doing?

[PepperElf]

she's 11?
she looks like she's ready to go out to the club and get laid.

seriously that's a major prosti-tot outfit she has on.


as for the sister - don't forget about hand-me-downs

[Lace Neil Singer]

Actually in the article, the mother states that she gives all Brogan's handmedowns to the Oxfam shop. So the sister gets nothing.

[Nyoibo]

she's 11?
she looks like she's ready to go out to the club and get laid.

She's a chav, she probably is.

[Boozy]

She's a chav, she probably is.

Need I remind everyone that this is an eleven year-old child we're talking about?

[Nyoibo]

Need I remind everyone that this is an eleven year-old child we're talking about?

That hasn't stopped them before Alfie was one, ok having sex at 12 not eleven, but the mother was 14 at the time, In the US "-Nationally, one-quarter of 15 year old females and less than 30% of 15 year old males have had sex" just because they're a "child" doesn't mean they aren't doing it.

[Boozy]

I realize that, but I still find it distasteful to be speculating about an 11 year-old's "sex" life. There's nothing in the article to indicate that's she's sexually active or has been sexually abused, so I don't see any reason to be talking about it.

[MystyGlyttyr]

If I had been in school with this girl, I'd have probably ended up kicking her ass at least once. They say she's "the ringleader" but I can pretty much promise you that all the other girls HATE her, behind her back and maybe even to her face. That's just how girls work. And if they don't, her sister sure as hell will.

And the saddest part of all is that the story makes it OBVIOUS that on some level she knows there's something wrong with the way things are, but she's just 11 and she doesn't know how to fix it, she just plain doesn't know any better, but in a way she's still TRYING, and her parents are too lazy and stupid to work with her and make any headway on correcting things.

If that's not on the top ten list for the ultimate real life Greek tragedy, I don't know what is.