Can
you think of any new parent that would call their baby ugly? Because I
couldn’t, that is until my American Studies class last week. We read a paper in
which a mother said she thought her newborn daughter was hideous when the
doctor gave her the baby for the first time.
Personally, I always thought
parents were programmed to think their child was beautiful. But apparently a
parent doesn’t have to think that highly of their kid. I recently read an
article where a man sued his wife for having an ugly baby. He sued on the
grounds that she had plastic surgery before he met her, so he never knew how
ugly she was. Shockingly, the judge agreed that this baby girl was, in fact,
ugly and that it was the mother’s fault. She had to pay the husband $120,000
for having an ugly baby.
I
was astounded in class when we read that the mother thought her child was
hideous. I was even more disgusted to hear that a man would go as far as suing
his wife for having a baby that he thought was ugly. If people are this harsh
towards the looks of their own babies, what does it say about our society as a
whole? I think that people are becoming too obsessed with appearances instead
of focusing someone’s personality. In this case, the man didn’t even stick
around long enough to get to know his daughter; he took one look at her and ran
for a lawyer.
The fact that you can sue someone for physical appearance is ridiculous. I agree with you that people are becoming too obsessed with looks, and it is ridiculous. The fact that this man didn't accept his daughter for who she was and what she looked like is crazy. But, this was in China and I don't know if it necessarily represents the US. I definitely agree with you that the obsession is out of control though.
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