Jon Bonet- itis... A growing Trend Among Rich Parents?

That's what the article below indicates is occurring around the country, as psychopathic parents rob their children of their childhoods trying to force their children into adulthood carving them into "mini me's" more and more than we've ever seen in the American culture, leaving no stone unturned attempting to assure their futures go exactly as they plan, not as the kids wish.

Seemingly this is particularly affecting young girls according to the author of the piece and we all see it in the media and elsewhere all around us with Jon Bonet Ramsey sadly being the ultimate poster child for such parental behavior.

Sometimes just a little of that can be a good thing, but going overboard in such a way and seeing children not being children is a very sad thing to witness, as we all know that for most people, their childhood is an all too short but great time of one's life that many adults who were deprived of it never seem to grow up and are terribly dysfunctional as a result.

IE One Michael Jackson, the epitome of a man robbed of his childhood that has literally turned into quite a sad freak of a person as we all know to well, and his topsy turvy existence should be a lesson to all parents around the world who don't allow their kids to be kids before physically growing up they must mentally grow fully and that begins with being kids first.

Childhood banished for kids of the rich:

WorldNetDaily "Plucking stray hairs so the eyebrows are arched just so, bikini wax jobs and even microderm abrasion – all the chores of maintaining the female body in competition to be a supermodel. Except these girls are ages 8 or 9, or maybe 10.

The new trend has been documented anecdotally by Carrie Denny, who wrote about it in the Philadelphia Magazine.

'Over the past few years, we've seen a tidal wave of this rising luxury-class culture – you've seen it in these pages, manifested in reports of $80,000 'push presents,' lavish condo buildings sprouting up like beanstalks, and weekends spent stockpiling couture with on-call personal shoppers. But just when we thought this consumerist takeover couldn't get any worse, here comes the trend’s newest tributary: The kids of the pampered are being taken along for the ride, without a backward glance at the childhood left behind,' she wrote."

Denny reports Lauren Albert, Rescue Rittenhouse Spa director, says moms often haul in daughters ages of 10 to 14 for waxes, nail services and facials, and expert advice on makeup.

"It's not just to get them ready for their big party," Albert told the magazine. "It's like, 'Okay, you’re becoming a woman now, here are the things you'll need to do as a woman.'"

But Denny pointed out the young girls are not women.

"This new, unstoppable desire of mothers to pluck and paint their daughters has created an unexpected conundrum for spa owners and aestheticians, who can't afford to lose the moms' lucrative business – but who also don't want to be partners in crime," she wrote.

Owner Joseph Cutrufello of the Pierre & Carlo European Salon & Spa said the moms are advised about the pain, sweating, and skin irritation that can result from some treatments. Denny reported at Bernard's Salon & Day Spa in Cherry Hill, marketing director Carla Ciocoila-Toppi is more direct.

"We've flat-out told mothers that highlighting such a young girl's hair is a bad idea, and something we’d rather not do. But so many mothers push anyway that now we have them sign a waiver."

How brutal that mothers would insist on something possibly harmful being done to their young children that they must sign a legal waiver to get those services is nearly sick and borderline child abuse I say.

Owner Sarah Keating of the Phoenix Salon & Spa noted she not only requires moms to sign waivers, but requires them to be on hand for procedures such as body waxing, "as any wayward hair that dared to grow on [the daughter's] adolescent skin – from head to toe – was ripped out."

"It's like this keeping-up-with-the-Joneses thing has stretched to our kids," Dasha Klein, who has an 11-year-old daughter. She said she knows 16-year-olds who have had breast implants and a 20-year-old who gets Botox.

"They're trying to keep up with Hollywood – and Britney Spears and Paris Hilton and Miley Cyrus and whoever else they're looking at," she said.

The growing celebrity worshiping American Idol young culture is out of control and is turning our once hard working educated society into a bunch of lazy ipod and blackberry addicted people all looking for the quick fast buck via a career as a celebrity of some kind or another, yearning to be like the 3 chickies of the moment mentioned above.

Particularly now it's this Hanna Montana Miley Cyrus girl who's the "teen babe flavor of the day", who hopefully will stay somewhat grounded despite her astronomical rise thanks to her star father Billy Ray Cyrus, who's already been there and done that and is apparently keeping her in line, as opposed to the near deadly meteoric fall that Brittany Spears is now experiencing, thanks a lot to her dysfunctional mother and father sucking her dry and for all she's worth for starters.

Here is another example of the sickening sexualization of young girls that is sweeping the world and not just our country which caused a young model to be booted from a modeling job at 14 years old in Britain recently:

14-year-old Polish model banned from catwalk in row over sexualising young girls

The Daily Mail: A model of 14 was banned from the catwalk in Australia yesterday amid continuing controversy over the sexualisation of young girls in the fashion industry.

A photo-shoot of Monika Jagaciak by Australian Vogue was also called off after the editor said she had not realised the Polish teenager's age.

Organisers of Australian Fashion week in Sydney banned all under-16s from the catwalk after furious public debate over the use of youngsters in an industry already under fire over anorexia and drug use.

It follows a similar decision ahead of London Fashion Week last September and brings the Australian event into line with shows in other leading cities.

Last night, British fashion designer Jeff Banks backed the Australian decision. "Even at 16, I think girls are too young unless they have got a chaperone with them," he said.

"But there is no doubt about it - at the age of just 14, they are too young.

"Putting on clothes and looking pretty sounds easy. But when the big money is involved, there is a lot of pressure.

"Girls can feel a pressure to conform because it is an adult asking them to do something that there are not comfortable or mature enough to deal with.

"If somebody is telling girls that they need to lose weight, how many of them would be strong enough to stand up for themselves and say, 'No, I'm quite happy with my body as it is?' continued

Is it just me or is that young girl up above more sickly looking than anything else? How little food does she actually not eat to stay that deathly thin and at the age of 14 already likely starving herself for her shot at being the next Kate Moss or whoever. Very sad.

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