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Do Middle Class Parents Treat Their Children As Fashion Accessories?

As opposed to treating them as an essential part of their lives? I'm quite gobsmacked at the comments from the likes of Lexy and Misty Blue. The plain fact of the matter is that there are a number of middle class parents out there who seem to be quite content to have children and then hand them over to the au pair or nanny and ignore their personal needs - I know, I've met some. This question has nothing whatsoever with the McCanns, but in retrospect I think it's quite a good example.

Public Comments

1. such as? lol i will Lexy!!!!!!! WTF has this got to do with current events? Unless its a strange question about the Mccanns
2. I don't know.... Do you? And is your avatar wearing a wig?
3. I think you are thinking of upper class.
4. mmmm
5. It depends on the parent. Being a middle-class teenager myself, I know I'm not spoiled much at all. My parents don't pay for my clothes or makeup or when I want to go places. They expect me to have a job and pay for things myself. It's true, some parnets do treat their children as "fashion accessories" but at least where I live, that's not the majority of cases.
6. No, that is a ridiculous question.
7. Sadly Hollywood 'parents'/'partners' whatever do treat their children like fashion accessories - in the UK all classes do - the only difference is the price of the gear they wear!
8. I don't think it is a class thing but it definatly has something to do with older parents. Older parents have had their whole lives to be themselves then all of a sudden a baby arrives and demands they give up all their free time and all the spur of the moment activites. I have met some who have found it impossible to cope and I put it down to the fact they find it tough to adapt the life they have been living for so long. Personally I think younger parents find that easier to do.
9. FFS. Do you want to tell him or shall I ? edit - Lisa, looks like Misty below told him for us all...lmafo...
10. You're serious aren't you? It's true then.Some people really are that stupid.
11. Yes. I think part of the reason a lot of middle class people have children is to fulfill their expected role as parent, and therefore their parent's role as grandparent. People with more money also have more imperative over how much time they spend with their children and therefore are less interested in the individual but rather how they weigh in against others (statistics over empirics, in essence). This, not at all like lower-class people, who have children purely to fill a void and suffice their own needs; and are forced in to longer, labourious hours with their children. ---- I feel inclined to ask Lisa, Lexy and Misty Blue what has prompted these vicious attacks...
12. I think that this is a fair question - I've seen kids who are treated like dressing up dolls by their parents and left to bring themselves up, their parents take pride in the amount of 'stuff' they can buy them but aren't in the slightest bit interested in actually caring for them, but they aren't what I would describe as middle class, working class or upper class - It happens across all classes. It's called 'people with little or no parenting skills having children' and it breaks your heart.
13. Some do. I've been to some homes of the 'very wealthy' 9they seem to live in ghettos ~ have you noticed!) and the children are often 'fashion accessories' or are 'by design' (as 'fashion accessories') ~ and often produced by women who have little or no idea what to do or how to cope with what they have been and produced. 'Wealth' does no automatically equate with 'brains.' Sash.
14. Yes, they are divine as ear rings.
15. That's a bit of a generalisation, isn't it? I'm sure some do and some don't. But no more than teenage girls on benefits do - and unfortunately for those kids, there's no nannies to pass them on to.
16. they look like it too