01-29-2021, 03:25 AM
Putting aside this family's personal business for a moment (and the fact that because they are in the public eye, that their personal business becomes public), to me it raises some obvious, more general questions:
1) Why does this young woman still have a phone? If her parents were actually parenting, shouldn't they have taken the phone away from her by now? (Who is paying the phone bill?)
2) Should 16 year olds be taking nude selfies? (It doesn't matter if she thought it would only be on her own phone, we all know the phones can, and have been, hacked...)
3) WHY would the 16 year old be taking a nude selfie? Most typically, one might think it's to send to a boyfriend, but that raises all sorts of other, terrible questions -- like whether or not the 16 year old is essentially trafficking in child pron and could be classified as a sex offender.
4) Is it OK for a mom to be rifling through her child's phone?
5) What happens when this photo inevitably circulates? I cannot imagine the embarrassment, shame, and harassment that this girl will have to endure.
I am not a parent and do not pretend by any means to have the answers to these questions, but I do think they need to be asked.
The whole thing sounds terribly ill and sick, no matter how it came about.
1) Why does this young woman still have a phone? If her parents were actually parenting, shouldn't they have taken the phone away from her by now? (Who is paying the phone bill?)
2) Should 16 year olds be taking nude selfies? (It doesn't matter if she thought it would only be on her own phone, we all know the phones can, and have been, hacked...)
3) WHY would the 16 year old be taking a nude selfie? Most typically, one might think it's to send to a boyfriend, but that raises all sorts of other, terrible questions -- like whether or not the 16 year old is essentially trafficking in child pron and could be classified as a sex offender.
4) Is it OK for a mom to be rifling through her child's phone?
5) What happens when this photo inevitably circulates? I cannot imagine the embarrassment, shame, and harassment that this girl will have to endure.
I am not a parent and do not pretend by any means to have the answers to these questions, but I do think they need to be asked.
The whole thing sounds terribly ill and sick, no matter how it came about.