Re: Mr. Hannah Montana's Achy Broken Heart

> I wonder about that. Do the trainwrecks truly outnumber the "clean ones" or
> do we just never hear about the "clean ones" because they go on to boring
> normal lives, like being a school teacher or something?

Yeah, I was going to make that point. If you think about the number of
"child stars" over the last 20 years, and then realize you can count
the number of trainwrecks without even using your toes, I think it's
pretty clear that the good ones outnumber the bad. It's just that the
media loves to spotlight the bad ones.

> You may be right.

> But then again, there are so many trainwrecks,
> shouldn’t that count as a very obvious warning sign?

I don't think so. There are a lot of serious injuries in football and
gymnastics, but if a kid has talent and aspirations, most parents are
willing to let them risk it for the sake of doing something they love.

I think most parents simply don't think their kid is going to be the
one that they read about in the papers. Heck, on a micro level,
Patience let her 15-year-old hang out with pot-smoking dropouts
because she "knew her daughter wasn't like that" -- until she started
skipping school and Patience caught her smoking. As an outsider to
that relationship, it was obvious to me that she was making a *huge*
mistake letting her daughter hang out with that crowd, and it was
*incredibly* naive to think that she wouldn't be influenced by them.
But Patience was wearing a parents' blinders; she saw her daughter as
that little girl she raised to do the right thing. I think *lots* of
parents are guilty of that naivete.

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