Adult’s Problems Due to Bad Parenting?
We are inundated with Lindsay Lohan news these days. Obviously she is a troubled young woman with problems that make her feel like she has to grab on to various addictions and bad habits. What I feel uneasy about is the media constantly blaming of her behaviors on her parents.
Now, don’t go crazy just yet, I know her parents fall a tad short of the parenting of the year award. They seem to love the fame and the money their daughter brought in for them. They obviously had a volatile marital relationship one that was brought out for the world to see, damaging them as well as their young children. The mother, Dina, seems to love the press giving them a “statement” every day about her daughter, she seems the kind of mother who wants to be the cool, hip one that wants to be a best friend. She could be a friend, but what any child really needs 100% of the time is a mother.
The father has been in and out of jail and does not have much to do with his daughter at this point although he loves to go on Larry King and put in his .02.
What I find to be silly is the constant blame on the parents despite teh fact that Lindsay is 21 years old. She is an adult, a grown woman.
At what age do you have to stand on your own and make your own mistakes without having the “bad parent” excuse? I think Lindsay’s problems are partly bad parenting but mostly a young famous girl in Hollywood problem. Too much fame and money and access to bad people with bad habits.
A young women who has made poor choices. Is that her parents fault? Do parent’s responsibility for their children’s decisions end at the age of 18?
I would like to hear what you think of the blame put on Lindsay’s parents, do you think they are entirely at fault for their daughter’s problems?
Lindsay Lohan, Dina Lohan, parenting, parenting children, teenagers, teens, kids, parental responsibility
August 1st, 2007 at 9:04 am
I give it a mixture of the parents and her, plus add a little bit of the media. I am not sure who is watching any “news” outlet that shows Lindsey/Paris/Brittany/Etc etc as actual news, but I blame them for giving these girls such big heads to make them think they are on top of the world. It makes me sick.
After seeing and hearing quotes from her parents, she was raised terribly, no one can argue that, however, it is definitely up to her to start making progress to change herself (ie going to a shrink). If anything, she will blow up out of control to the point that the government will have to step in and make her take the right steps toward her recovery. At least that is my opinion on this crazy *****.
August 1st, 2007 at 9:19 am
I definitely think that this girl should have had morals instilled in her while still young. She obviously had no parenting on that plane. That, with a thousand other negative factors, and she’s just a train wreck.
August 1st, 2007 at 2:06 pm
I think that the parents definitely played a major part in the problems she’s experiencing. However, at this point, as you say, she’s an adult. She’s making the decisions. I think the worst decision her parents made was to let her get into acting, singing, whatever before she was mature enough to handle the fame, money, and attention.
August 1st, 2007 at 2:40 pm
I think that it’s hard for any one to be an adult with role models as she had growing up. I’m sure that makes it that much harder for her now to know how to stand on her own feet. While I agree that she’s legally an adult and she needs to take responcibility for her actions, 21 is still very young. I think it will take a few more years before she can be mature enough to be past the upbringing she had.
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