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    "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"

    Pageant Moms Talk Trash On Little Girls On The Internet
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    Image of marshmallory marshmallory
    09/18/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    Cassidy is WAY cuter in the interview videos than she is all glitzed up. Put that kid in sports, STAT!
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    09/18/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    Wow, Cassidy is intelligent, articulate, brimming with fury at the world, and probably going to grow up pretty. I am rooting for this girl 100%.
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    Image of TheUptightMidwesterner TheUptightMidwesterner
    09/18/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    I deperately want to beat on these women Godfather-style.
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    Image of LittleDogLaughed LittleDogLaughed
    09/18/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    Ahem.

    As someone with NON-undiagnosed ADHD, I just got to stand up and say, ADHD is NOT "asshole disease." Nor is it madness without method... we think differently, but we still THINK. An ADD diagnosis means you need to spend MORE time figuring out your kid, not LESS.

    Also, denying your child proper medical care counts as neglect. People like to joke about hyperactive kids by saying that they're "ADHD," like it's a personality trait. It's NOT. It's a real, honest-to-God cognitive disorder, and it can ruin lives.
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    Image of prestocaro fears the culling prestocaro fears the culling
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    Am I the only one that thought Cassidy's mom seemed kind of... happy that C didn't win? The way she grins at her in the clip and talks about how she was banking on her daughter losing kind of seals the deal for me.

    Oh, and god bless future Chief Justice Sparkal Queenz.
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    Image of onestrawplz onestrawplz
    09/18/09

    @prestocaro fears the culling: The mom should've stuck with the name Brooklyn like she mentioned in the clip...at least it doesn't bring to mind images of glitter, and can be truncated to either Brook or Lynn, two common and normal names.
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    Image of killershrew killershrew
    09/18/09

    @onestrawplz: Plus it's a double shout-out to New York City. Holla!
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    09/18/09

    @killershrew: True. Brooklyn is actually kind of an awesome name. And Brooklyn Queenz is about 10 times awesomer.
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    Image of Tredwina Tredwina
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    I can only think of a few future careers fit for someone named Sparkal Queenz...
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    Image of Cheruth Cheruth
    09/17/09

    @Tredwina: Agent in the British Secret Intelligence Services?

    The name is Queenz. Sparkal Queenz.
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    Image of mariamariamaria mariamariamaria
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    Awwww, Cassidy's Mom, please let her join a softball team or something. I see "slugger" written all over her. ADHD my butt - she just needs something to whack at to get her frustrations out. The balloon never had a chance.
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    Image of TheFormerJuneBronson TheFormerJuneBronson
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    I feel so much better about my parenting skills now, I can't even tell you.
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    Image of Kitty Kitty
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    It's like watching a train wreck of humans.
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    Image of midwesternmom midwesternmom
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    I want to start a fan club for Pirate Dad. He clearly loves his daughter, and they actually enjoyed their pageant experience. Plus he has such a sweet, loopy smile. I am thinking he might have his own herbal supplements going on.
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    Image of I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    The scary thing about Cassidy's "not a welfare" mom, is that about 10 years ago she was involved in another documentary on beauty pageants with her older daughter. The doc was called "Baby Beauty Queens" and it aired on A&E. You may remember her daughter Jenny Foster, who had cystic fibrosis and died of it at the age of 15, shortly after the documentary aired.
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    Image of Chocolate Sex Bunny Chocolate Sex Bunny
    09/17/09

    @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby: OMG I instantly recognized her from that documentary and wondered if she was going to mention her deceased daughter in last night's show.
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    Image of CynicalPink CynicalPink
    09/17/09

    @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby: Wow...that was not a lot of positive reinforcement for that girl. And she had so little time left and this was how she spent it...

    I guess this might explain why she seems...unhinged now...
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    Image of GazpachoKitty GazpachoKitty
    09/17/09

    @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby:
    Let me get this straight. "Not a Welfare Mom" would rather spend money on pageants than medical bills. This is the same mother that had another daughter with cystic fibrosis and participated in pageants. This daughter died. Now she has another daughter and she's forcing her to do pageants. The forced to do pageants daughter has "undiagnosed ADHD" which she treats with herbal supplements instead of taking her to a therapist and psychiatrist.

    Am I the only one that sees all sorts of wrong here?

    Could Not a Welfare Mom have spent her pageant money on poor Jenny to maybe extend her life? I couldn't watch the entire clip, but I'm fairly sure that was Not a Welfare Mom yelling at Jenny to start over and do it again. I don't know how much Jenny enjoyed pageants, but way to make the last few years of her too short life a living hell. Being yelled at that you aren't doing something right and you need to do it again can't be very enjoyable...

    Then she turns around and forces little sister to fill big sister's shoes? Looks like she is using Cassidy to make money and pay for Jenny's medical bills. I know, I know, I could be terribly wrong here.

    Maybe I'm just very mad and I can't reason well at the moment.
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    Image of Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin) Mmmmkay (gellin' and Jezebelin)
    09/17/09

    @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby: I knew I recognized her. So sick and sad.
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    Image of tewkesbury tewkesbury
    09/17/09

    @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby: oh, I remember this! The daughter had that heartbreaking Tatum O'Neal face.
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    Image of I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby
    09/17/09

    @GazpachoKitty: I know. It's the "replacement child" vibe I'm getting that I'm worried about. I think the older daughter did like pageants, but Cassidy clearly does not.
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    Image of Where The Mild Things Are Where The Mild Things Are
    09/17/09

    @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby: I got the same vibe - Jenny (the older daughter) seemed in-control and excited about the competitions. I wonder how much that contributes now to the mother's disregard of the younger daughter's complaints.
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    Image of MargaretMoony MargaretMoony
    09/18/09

    @I Will Not Stop Feeding My Fat Baby: OH. MY. GOD. I did not know that, it makes me want to cry.
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    Image of roscoe roscoe
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    i'mma movie star! you're fired!

    wow, didn't see THAT coming, did ya, pageant mom? that girl's got spunk.
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    Image of cnphair cnphair
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    "Then she explained that she sometimes doesn't make "medical payments" in order to afford pageant fees."

    This makes me NOT want healthcare reform. Ok, not really. But seriously?
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    09/17/09

    @cnphair: Except who do you think pays when she racks up health care bills that don't get paid by her?
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    Image of cnphair cnphair
    09/17/09

    @Lymed: Everybody else but the parents. .
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    09/17/09

    @cnphair: Exactly, so health reform really won't change...may actually force her to pay with a mandate
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    Image of Elaken Elaken
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    I have to be honest, it scares me that that woman is allowed to be a mom. Forcing your kid to do pageants, not paying medical bills, using herbal supplements... I will never understand why society believes having kids are a right and not a privilege.
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    Image of Lymed Lymed
    09/17/09

    @Elaken: Herbal supplements in and of themselves are not bad. Giving herbal supplements to your child without a doctor's advice is a problem. A lot of herbal supplements do have safety and efficacy research that has been performed in other countries, particularly Germany, where these treatments are more common. Of course, I'm guessing this mother has not looked into such research.
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    Image of queen_caribbean queen_caribbean
    09/17/09

    @Elaken: Agreed. I know so many people who make wonderful, loving parents yet they were unable to conceive. The adoption process was torturous, but they found it completely worth it. They are just so elated to even have a child that they would never dream of exploiting and/or taking the child for granted. Making the child participate in something that is clearly meant to benefit the parent's ego rather than the child's sense of self-worth is out of the question.
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    09/17/09

    In reply to "Being A Pageant Mom Is No Worse Than Being A Welfare Mom"
    Sparkal? Wow... just, words fail me.

    Can you imagine that name in a serious setting? I can't.
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    Image of LaFemme LaFemme
    09/17/09

    @Ailatan: I was just going to comment on this... Referring to the, "do you judge people on their first name?" thread, I will confess this is one that blows it out of the park for me in its stupidity.

    EVEN BETTER. Did you hear the last name? QUEENS. And the other name the mother was considering was Brooklyn. So little Sparkal could have been Brooklyn Queens.
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    09/17/09

    @LaFemme: And she's so pleased with it, after all these years she seems to find it oh so clever!
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    Image of schweppes schweppes
    09/17/09

    @LaFemme: Oh no, it's not "Queens," it's "Queenz." With a Z.
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    Image of LaFemme LaFemme
    09/17/09

    @schweppes: Oooh..../grimace
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    Image of Ailatan Ailatan
    09/17/09

    @schweppes: Like Liza!
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