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I was watching a special about Britney Spears last night. I don’t really know why, I think I was too lazy to get the remote or maybe there was nothing on. Doesn’t matter, I was watching it.

Anyway, so they were talking about how her mother was a stage mom and all that, and how the reason she’s acting out may be because she wasn’t allowed a real childhood and she was being the “rebellious teen” now.  It also talked about how her father wasn’t a good breadwinner, which is what led to BS’s parents’ divorce. He was never really a part of pushing her career. I didn’t know that.  He was supposedly the bad father and, meanwhile, look who is taking care of her and her sister now. It’s the father.

This made me think about current teens in similar situations and I automatically thought of American Idol runner-up David Arculeta. The 17 year old, known affectionately as Archie by his fans and friends, wasn’t my favorite on the show this season. I was overcome by David Cook mania (see older posts). That being said I did really like the kid. He was an amazing singer, the first time I heard him I thought he was the sure-fire winner, and was polite and adorable all season long. I wanted to hug him, he was so cute. Hell, I wanted to adopt him- he looked about 7.

The only thing that was more publicized than Archie’s skills was the antics of his stage dad. He was even banned from the backstage area because how verbally abusive he could be. While rumors are sometimes only that, the poor boy looked petrified every time anyone would talk.

After he lost the show, reports claimed that his father was going full steam ahead getting him a record deal and that his mother was actually worse than he was in the crazed stage parent category. If this is true I truly worry for Archie. Say he loses it, say he goes all Britney in 10 years. Who will be the one to take care of him?

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