Brooke needs to butt out

Brooke Shields was understandably upset with Tom Cruise for criticizing her use of antidepressants to ease her postpartum depression. So why did she then turn around and criticize parents for giving kids Ritalin and other medications?
Sure, some parents may be too quick to solve behavioral issues through prescriptions rather than better parenting. But many other kids have serious medical challenges and need such medications to live happy and successful lives.
Just as Cruise didn’t know Shields’ circumstances, neither is Shields in a position to judge all parents.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

3 Comments

  1. E. Ireland
    Posted June 18, 2005 at 2:04 am | Permalink

    Who cares? Entertainers aren’t even entertaining usually. Their pre-adolescent antics have no place in the news.

  2. Kevin
    Posted June 19, 2005 at 3:41 pm | Permalink

    I was under the impression that she just said that she doesn’t support the wide spread use of medications, such as Ritalin, to correct child behavior. I have never seen or heard of so many kids being on these types of drugs. Most kids I grew up with were fine and didn’t need to be medicated. Why all of a sudden are there 3 or 4 children in a classroom on prozac, paxil, or ritalin? I doubt that there is a sudden increase in mental illness in children. My money is on poor parenting.

  3. Mary Caruso
    Posted June 20, 2005 at 5:21 pm | Permalink

    You got that right, Kevin!