July 29, 2011
8. Newblog2011: 07/29/11 The children of famous people
The children of famous people never asked to have famous parents. Do famous people ever consider keeping their children out of the public eye as much as possible, so that their children have as much choice as possible about whether or not they want to be famous when they’re older?
To say “My child wants to be famous,” isn’t the same thing as saying that a child understands and is ready to make a decision about whether or not he or she wants thousands or millions of people to be watching everything that he or she does all the time. There are people who become famous when they are in their late teens, in their twenties, or even later in life who then wish that they hadn’t, who wish that they could have back the lives that they gave up to fame; how, then, can any child accurately judge whether or not he or she will look back on his or her childhood from adulthood and say “I’m glad that I’ve been famous all my life”?
As far as children being used to promote issues goes; that seems questionable to me no matter what the issue is, and there are some issues for which it seems to me very unlikely that the children who get used to promote those issues are going to look back when they are adults and say “Thanks, Mom and Dad, I’m glad that you made me the poster child for that.”
8. Newblog2011: 07/29/11 The children of famous people
Copyright L. Kochman July 29, 2011 @ 3:45 p.m.
8. Newblog2011: 07/29/11 The children of famous people
The children of famous people never asked to have famous parents. Do famous people ever consider keeping their children out of the public eye as much as possible, so that their children have as much choice as possible about whether or not they want to be famous when they’re older?
To say “My child wants to be famous,” isn’t the same thing as saying that a child understands and is ready to make a decision about whether or not he or she wants thousands or millions of people to be watching everything that he or she does all the time. There are people who become famous when they are in their late teens, in their twenties, or even later in life who then wish that they hadn’t, who wish that they could have back the lives that they gave up to fame; how, then, can any child accurately judge whether or not he or she will look back on his or her childhood from adulthood and say “I’m glad that I’ve been famous all my life”?
As far as children being used to promote issues goes; that seems questionable to me no matter what the issue is, and there are some issues for which it seems to me very unlikely that the children who get used to promote those issues are going to look back when they are adults and say “Thanks, Mom and Dad, I’m glad that you made me the poster child for that.”
8. Newblog2011: 07/29/11 The children of famous people
Copyright L. Kochman July 29, 2011 @ 3:45 p.m.