I acknowledge in advance that this post will likely erupt into a flames war. Flame suit is on.
I don't understand Marie Osmond. The mother of 8 children, I wonder how much time she actually spends with her children? I understand that she's a singer, a dancer, she designs dolls, and has a new line of quilting fabric out this year. In addition, she has a line of sewing machines and embroidery sewing machines. Plus her various charitable works, and I've probably only scratched the surface. Is she trying to keep up with her brothers? Out do them?
Just the practices alone for the Dancing With the Stars has to be time consuming and grueling. Parenting is time consuming enough; when does she sleep? It was recently revealed on Larry King Live that her 16 year old son is in rehab. Her daughters were in the news in the not too distant past for their bawdy Myspace pages. Admitting to "whoring" and so on.
While Marie entertains the world and busies herself with so many distractions, who is mothering her kids? Who is teaching them that it isn't safe to post about their sexual lives on the Internet? Who is there supervising, knowing who their friends are, knowing where they are, talking with them, teaching them?
How can she continue to 'dance with the stars' while her son is in rehab? I suppose it would be politicaly incorrect to comment "Nero fiddled while Rome burned"?
Marie isn't the only one following her bliss, I realize. But many women and girls look up to her. Once one decides to bring children into this world, one should make them a priority.
Yes, I know that kids without working parents can have problems, too. But I would bet anything that parents who are there for their kids, working or not, will have fewer and less severe problems. I seriously doubt that Marie needs the income from her various endeavors...but I do not doubt that her kids need her. Once they're grown - and it happens too fast - she will have the rest of her life to find her bliss.
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People like her see kids as collectibles, not actual people. They have this assumption that kids will concur with the grand scheme that they've fantasized about in their heads, not do things like rebel or otherwise upset the apple cart. I came from a big family with parents who strove to make a Godly public image, and the reality was very harsh.
I don't disagree with the substance of your post, but what about the father of those eight kids? Doesn't he have any responsibility to help raise them?
So are you anti-working mom, or anti-rich mom who still works because she feels like it?
I agree with the original post and wonder today why she went to work the day after her son's funeral. She needs to be home hugging her children and sharing this time with them. So what if the show is sold out. The show must so on? Bah humbug! Love those children, they'll soon be up and grown and Mommy has taught them what? To be on stage is the number one thing in life.
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