Speaking of moral panics, it fails to surprise me that Britney Spears is once again being castigated as the 'bad mother'. If putting 'soda' in bottles or fending off the prying lenses of the stalkarazzi are the worst things that this woman has done as a mother, I'm not sure that she is really 'dangerous' as tenuously truthful
Us Weekly (apparently a trusted source of parenting advice these days) shouts in this week's headline.
There is a difference between dangerous and clueless. When I was a kid, one of my childhood friends was given juice in a bottle every night when she went to bed and her teeth all rotted. Her parents weren't trying to cause her lifelong dental problems. They were young and didn't have a clue. Britney doesn't have a clue. And you know why that's okay? Because she has a whole team of nannies to do the things that she isn't able to do herself. As much as people want to bang on about the 'crisis' situation in the Spears household, I am sure that those kids are very well-looked after (even if it's not necessarily by their own parents). There are plenty of parents in the world who actually abuse their children. The claims that she is most definitely 'bipolar' and her behaviour erratic seem a little harsh even if they are true.
According to Us, when Britney and her children stayed in a Pacific Palisades home:
“She ate tacos on the bedroom floor!” a source says of the home. “She got crumbs and grease everywhere. She let her babies and her dog roam the floor. She left the bed a mess – I don’t know what’s wrong with her.”
Shock! Horror! A mess! She's not responsible but she's certainly not dangerous.
Britney has been constantly scrutinised since she became a mother and I find it interesting that the 'bad mother' media slant never seems to change despite the fact that her behaviour has not always been 'erratic'. And why is it that Kevin Federline comes off looking like Dad of the Year? This is the same guy who left Shar Jackson WHILE SHE WAS PREGNANT, leeched off Britney for a few years, partied like a rockstar and only NOW decides that he wants full custody of the children ostensibly so he can get more money out of their divorce settlement.
Lay off the girl. She's making a lot of tabloid magazine editors very very wealthy as a result of all the salacious gossip bandied about regarding her personal life. No wonder she's going crazy.
