The "Green Mile" movie actor Doug Hutchison marries 16-year-old

Stautner;3977593 said:
I suppose some kind of stumble into these kinds of pageants - someone suggests they have an exceptionally cute kid and there parental pride causes them to allow someone to steer them to a pageant. But I imagine the majority are just pushnig their kids too early, and living toomuch through their kids.

I think all parents live through their kids to some degree, but the key is keeping it in perspective. Obviously a lot of parents can't do that.
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My own view there is just something wrong with this not to mention creepy.

These are little girls not glamor models
 
cowboyeric8;3977594 said:
I think Rebecca Black is better. And thats saying something.
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Yeah I think a lot of states changed the age for consent to 16 a while back. Crazy.

That chick definately doesn't look 16 but, hell, anymore you can't always tell for sure. There are kids in the high schools around my hometown that definately look like they should be in at least their 2nd year of college who are just 8th or 9th graders.

The times have changed for sure.
 
Doomsday101;3977597 said:
My own view there is just something wrong with this not to mention creepy.

These are little girls not glamor models
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I agree. I was only saying that it may be possible that some may have just agreed to allow their daughter to compete out of a misguided notion that they would be depriving their daughter of an opportunity if they stopped it. But overall, I agree that most parents are largely just trying to satisfy their own ego by pushing their daughter into it.

Personally I think starting kids in sports at age 3 or 4 is permature, but parents feel pressure to do it because so many others are doing it, and they don't want to feel they are depriving their kid of opportunities others have, or allowing their kid to fall behind the others. Personally I've found that most kids don't really get a head start by starting that early. For one thing, they are too young to develop too much of an understanding of the sport, so a year more experience doesn't really equate to a year more advanced. A reasonably bright kid can catch up pretty fast.

yimyammer;3977606 said:
how is this not statutory rape?
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Because the parents consented to the marriage.
 
BraveHeartFan;3977629 said:
Yeah I think a lot of states changed the age for consent to 16 a while back. Crazy.

That chick definately doesn't look 16 but, hell, anymore you can't always tell for sure. There are kids in the high schools around my hometown that definately look like they should be in at least their 2nd year of college who are just 8th or 9th graders.

The times have changed for sure.
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It can go both ways. I was driving by the UT campus a couple of months ago. I could not believe how young many of the students I saw that day looked. They looked like highschoolers to me.
 
joseephuss;3977633 said:
It can go both ways. I was driving by the UT campus a couple of months ago. I could not believe how young many of the students I saw that day looked. They looked like highschoolers to me.
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This is true. That does indeed happen as well. Good point.
 
joseephuss;3977633 said:
It can go both ways. I was driving by the UT campus a couple of months ago. I could not believe how young many of the students I saw that day looked. They looked like highschoolers to me.
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I used to say that too until i realized that it was me that was getting older:laugh2:

Seriously though, there are a large number of students nowadays who are graduating high school at or around 16 years of age and going straight to college. There are also a decent amount of high school students who are taking their junior and senior year classes at universities (mostly community colleges) so by the time they finish high school they also have 2 years of college credits. My niece is one of those. She graduated from her high school this past May and got accepted to St. John's University with 2 years worth of college credits.
 
ABQCOWBOY;3977362 said:
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This is an aspiring COUNTRY singer?

I think I can safely say she hasn't got a hope in hell.
 
Reminds me of Jack Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest:

"She was 15, going on 35, Doc ..."
 
Hostile;3977707 said:
This is an aspiring COUNTRY singer?

I think I can safely say she hasn't got a hope in hell.
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I don't know. What was Dolly Parton's singing like at age 16?

I know. Dolly Parton has much more talent.:D
 
ninja;3977710 said:
I don't know. What was Dolly Parton's singing like at age 16?

I know. Dolly Parton has much more talent.:D
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She didn't sound like a bad karaoke wannabe diva.
 
ScipioCowboy;3977747 said:
I'm eating copious amounts of crow on this one. Not once did I seriously entertain the notion that she was actually 16.
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neither did my husband. he didn't believe she was 16 either.
 
Cajuncowboy;3977966 said:
Her parents need a beating.
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Yes I agree.

Some of these parents need beating when they do stuff like this.

This is not the first time a celeb has done something like this.

Ted Nugent had a similar situation in his past where he got legal guardianship of a young girl through her parents.

Crazy stuff.

Part of me wonders if the kids are better off, if the parents actually did them a favor because it seems to me that if a parent(s) would do something like that, they are not that great of parents to start with.
 
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