How, as a psychologist, can you work with/promote a mother who lives such a *fake*, contrived lifestyle that is likely to be deeply harmful for those around her. Those kids will have no concept of the real world. Questions I’d love to ask of the psychologist:
“What long-term emotional effects does it have for children to have had their lives shared with the entire world when they are not old enough to give consent or understand the implications?”
“What proportion of parent-child relations break down irreparably when children come to realise the exploitation that their parents have subjected them to without their knowing?”
“How do adolescents feel when they learn that a significant number of paedophiles will have files of photographs of them as children stored on their computer? Did these children consent to having their photographs and personal information shared with the entire world? No, no they didn’t. What damage does this cause to an adolescent’s mental health going into adulthood? Trust issues? Image issues? Anxiety? Sheet abject horror when they realise what their parents have done to them without their permission?”
I could go on…
I strongly believe in a child’s right to complete privacy and online anonymity until they are of an age of maturity that they can give INFORMED consent to have their image and personal information shared. And by informed consent, I mean a real, in-depth understanding of the implications of having their personal information shared online with ANYONE and EVERYONE in the world. It absolutely baffles me what goes through the heads of these sorts of ‘influencers’, and I have a respect for those who manage to make a career out of doing what they do, but manage to keep their children out of it.
) does, and the other insta-fakers. They are all modern day online con - artists and I think insta needs seriously regulating and a lot more transparency.
