QUOTE(Siara @ Jan 25 2007, 10:05 PM) [snapback]1515716[/snapback]
I am joking, Fleur-de-lis. I realize that it's a vicious form of humor, but I find the parenting style of her parents extremely distasteful. A little girl like that should being roller skating, giggling, maybe playing dolls, with other little kids. Yanking her out of her natural social context, gussying her up like a call girl, and then parading her around in front of other parents like some blue ribbon cow at a 4-H fair was not kind. I think the mother probably wanted to be a beauty queen herself and was living the fantasy through her kid. Which would be horribly selfish because the kid had a life too.
I suspect that you and I will never agree on this topic.
JonBenet wanted to do beauty pageants....It was completely her choice, her mother never forced her into doing anything. When she wasn't doing pageants she was a completly normal little girl, just because she was in beauty contests dosn't make her any differnt to any other 6 year old...
See, what I don't get is that people seem to think that beauty pageants are horrid and child abuse and that the parents that put thier children into them are horrid. But the fact is, most of the girls who do this sort of thing LOVE it. Can't you remember loving to dress-up in pretty clothes and always wanting to try on makeup and things like that? Little girls love that sort of thing, and I don't understand why such a fuss is being made out of it.
Perhaps the fact she was a child beauty queen drew her killer to her....But does that mean her parents are wrong for letting her do what she loved?