What's your take on the Britney Spears fiasco?

[Krummhorn]

Just curious how people feel about the current fiasco involving the child custody issues of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline. Who should get full custody of the children?

Or is this just another publicity stunt, much as it was for Paris Hilton, to garner more attention in hopes to revive a failing career.

This is a two part poll - multiple answers are permitted.

[Corno Dolce]

Britney Spears is a spoiled, immature, and mentally ill individual who needs qualified medical therapy. Giving her even partial custody of a child is akin to putting a .357 Magnum into the hands of a psychopath. The child will become so damaged by it.

[Sybarite]

I don't know enough about the specifics of this custody case to say one way or the other – unlike the court, I haven't seen and heard all the evidence.

However, generally speaking I think Britney Spears is a fairly talentless individual, hyped way beyond any abilities and whose every move is watched by some of those members of the public who haven't actually got the intellect to invest their time in something more interesting.

Perhaps the cult of the talentless 'celebrity' is simply the new opiate of the people?

[toejamfootball]

What about Britney? She has gotten her kids taken away.. Wait!? She HAS Kids?

Perhaps the cult of the talentless 'celebrity' is simply the new opiate of the people?

LOL, I like that one. It does seem that way dosnt it?

[Corno Dolce]

*cult of the talentless celebrity* - Gee, now that would cover about 90% of the looney tunes running around Hollywood as if they were a chicken with it's head cut off.

[methodistgirl]

Just remember this is the generation that was raised Dr. Spock's way.
I was raised different and I believe there are more of us. My late
husband has a niece that is turned that way. By the time she was
14 years old she was having her first child out of wedlock. With me,
if my parents found out that I was pregnant at fourteen they would
have taken the roof off the house after what they would have done
to me. I was a preacher's kid and I had to be the perfect child all of
the time. I didn't get to go act like that. I had a boyfriend whom I
loved dearly and my parents broke that up! My mother and inlaws
broke up my first marriage. They acted more like outlaws. I didn't
have a good marriage until they both passed on. I wasn't allowed to
make any mistakes with bad consaquencies. Sorry I can't spell it!
I wasn't the typical "baby boomer" like all the others my age. Even
now I find things like this young generation does to be wrong.
I couldn't really make love to my husbands because of such an
upbringing. I simply avoided being a mother and feared doing so
knowing that I would get fussed at.
judy tooley

[Sybarite]

Hang on – so this is the fault of the "Dr Spock" generation, but your upbringing, which was the opposite to that, left you incapable of enjoying sex and feeling inadequate as a mother and wife?

I'm not sure what you're saying here.

In terms of your late husband's neice, you might want to consider why, in some of the most religious parts of the US, with some of the most religious education, all the stuff about abstinence and pretty much zilch sex education etc, there are high rates of STDs and teenage pregnancy.

You might find this interesting.

[methodistgirl]

You're right! I do live in what people call the bible belt. This place from
kentucky to florida is called the bible belt and this area is full of Baptist
to Presbyterians. Right now I'm a new methodist. Religion is as strong as
communisium in China. But yet you have people who are not christians
either. As for my late husband's niece, I told her and her husband that
I was through with them. Her husband is an actual bully. He hits on her
and gave my husband a black eye more than once. This 350pound bully
hitting on my husband. Charlie my little hubby only waighed about 140
when he ate good. He never really gained weight like I can. He was no
taller than I am maybe two inches more and only waighed that much or
less. The last time I saw him with out his cloths, he looked like some
of those children in Africa starved to death. I threw a fit and fixed him
a big breakfast. Then we left where we were living so that he could
get some cancer treatments. Now I'm a widow who misses him a lot
sybarite. I still cry for him once in a while. I'm only 47 years old and
should still be married to him. I can't still be his wife now that he is
in his grave. Don't get me wrong about my upbringing. I think my
parents did an excellent job with me. I was the type of child who would
try your patience. I still try my own sometimes and get mad.
judy tooley

Sybrite, I would like your opinion or answer.

[pnoom]

I've not followed the issue because I don't really care.