That movie made me cry...Jamie Lee Curtis posted a blog on Huffingtonpost.com yesterday. It is a glorious, wondrous blog that made my heart quicken and my eyes spark with joy.
Curtis used the piece to call in to question the parents roll in the fallen starlet epidemic. The sad paths of the three most popular young women -- privileged but from varying backgrounds, talented, beautiful and spectacular -- have ended in prison, rehab and mental illness. I hope their mothers are worried sick and wondering, "What could I have done differently?" The catalyst for her speaking out seems to have been Paris's cries of "Mom, it's not right!" at the conclusion of her trial.
Curtis raises many valid points. She asks the same questions many have been wondering since it seems to have become a national obsession to watch young ladies self destruct. Where did our children get the message that the rules don't apply to them? And where did we, the Mothers, get the message that if we abdicate our responsibilities as Mothers, the Universe will do our job for us?
Parents can't be totally to blame. But I'll be damned if they didn't learn their behavior somewhere.
