To think this article on Brooklyn Beckham is utterly ridiculous?

[CallaLilli]

It makes ES Magazine look like literature!
www.tatler.com/news/articles/october-2015/the-posh-girls-pin-up-brooklyn-beckham

[AFewGoodWomen]

There must be an element of addiction involved. They have a lot of money and don't need to keep generating more publicity via their children. They must know that the chances of an average looking lad with no obvious talent (football/ singing / modelling or anything else) staying in the public eye and staying sane are very slim. He has no reason to be in the public eye yet he is. What does that do to his sense of self? They must crave publicity the way the rest of us would crave oxygen if starved of air.

Very odd.

You see young people who have a certain amount of talent but it all goes wrong (Lindsey Lohan, Mccalkin boy, etc etc) and you cannot avoid feeling it is a huge risk. But for a boy who is in the public eye only because of his parents? I would be very worried.

[TheNewStatesman]

I am not interested in clicking on the article (not being Mrs Robinson!), but I am also amused by all these posters going on about how he is a CHILD!!! No, he isn't a child--seriously. He's old enough to have sex, and to get married with parental consent.

[JeffsanArsehole]

I think most people who deal with teenagers think of 16 year olds as 'young people' or children.

They are still very immature with a lot of neurological growing to do. No one I know thinks that many 16 year olds handle sex and the emotional consequences well. There are very few 16 year olds who should be having sex or getting married.

Anyone who thinks of 16 year olds as adults or 'hot/ready' for sex does not spend any time with that age group.

[StillStayingClassySanDiego]

Ds3 is 16, an older teen who's still at school, so a child in my opinion.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

I think 16 year olds are children despite whatever legal rights they may have acquired since their birthday.

[QueenPotato]

The age of consent has to start somewhere, but that doesn't mean a 15yo goes from being an immature child to a sensible mature adult overnight on their birthday. It's a gradual process and some are more mature than others - and also as PPs say, a great many 16yos aren't mature at all.

I think the age of consent at 16 does make sense as you would expect some teenagers to be experimenting with each other at that age. That doesn't mean a much older person publicly leching over a young person turning 16 is fine. And being "legal" doesn't mean there's no possibility of abuse.

I think most of us if we know someone in their 30s or 40s who was having a relationship with a 16yo, would find it icky and inappropriate, even if it is legal. Especially if it was our own 16yo!

[howtorebuild]

The Beckham's admit to having addictions, hovering in straight lines and sleeping with the Enemy style can issues for David. Rumoured issues with prawn addiction for Victoria.

[TheHiphopopotamus]

The Beckham's admit to having addictions, hovering in straight lines and sleeping with the Enemy style can issues for David. Rumoured issues with prawn addiction for Victoria.

Is this code because I'm having trouble deciphering it. Im very intrigued though

I get the sleeping with the enemy reference (I think)

[howtorebuild]

www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-502552/ObsessiveDavid-Beckham-reveals-I-hoover-straight-lines.html

[MitzyLeFrouf]

I remember reading that DB can only have even numbers of Coke cans in the fridge.

[howtorebuild]

www.psychbase.com/ocd/david-beckham-matching-food/

[73dexter]

Oh it's hoovering in straight lines. I'm slightly disappointed it's not hovering!

[TheHiphopopotamus]

Ah, right. I don't know about that, thanks.

[howtorebuild]

vegetarianstar.com/2009/08/13/david-beckham-cooks-prawns-for-vegetarian-victoria-beckham/

Good for David speaking up about his additions and mh issues, it's all been lost over the years though.

[AFewGoodWomen]

I imagine they think they can protect Brooklyn (and the others in due course) with heir wealth and connections and PR teams. But there are no black and white, easy to discern lines in the sand.
A cute photo of Brooklyn kicking a football around aged 7? Probably benign. But maybe the start of something you can't stop as it takes on a life of its own,
A cute photo of Brooklyn at a Harry Potter premier aged 11? Also probably benign.
A whole media machine pitching Brooklyn as a sexy teen with rafts of hot Disney actress girlfriends at age 15? Already crossed the line for most people, but maybe they can't spot that.
An article describing him as hot, ready, legal? Way over the line. But maybe they can't see the wood for the trees.

[MitzyLeFrouf]

I think there's a high chance that at least one of their four children will grow to hate being in the spotlight. Better to bring them up quietly and let them decide at 18 if they want to play the fame game than to enforce fame on them.

[regenerationfez]

He can have sex and get married at 16, but the point is that a woman 20 years his senior is declaring that to the world, and his parent have done bugger all about it. Maybe they have been in that fake bubble world for so long that it's just another thing for them. Maybe they don't feel it is not inappropriate at all.

[MrsJayy]

Of course he can have sex marry father children join the army etc etc but to a 30odd year old woman he is a child not hot and ready she made him sound like something to prey on she should have just said fresh meat because that is what she mean letch that she is.

[Narp]

She made him sound like a commodity. That's consistent with how Brand Beckham have marketed themselves, so maybe he's considered fair game. Poor sod

[SarahSavesTheDay]

Sooo.... does anyone know where he's doing his A-levels?

[Cocolepew]

I presume he isnt sarah if hes working for VB.
Why are you so interested..?

[Sparklingbrook]

I think I read somewhere he was doing an apprenticeship as a PA for his Mum. Or something.

There was someone on here that said the Beckhams had looked around their child's school in order to do 6th form IIRC but no idea what happened there.

[SarahSavesTheDay]

Well, he went to Wetherby for primary where it would be pretty unusual to not go onto the best secondary you could possibly eek into. Of course he's an unusual case, isn't he?

[SarahSavesTheDay]

I remember that, it was Latymer. Which seemed like an indication that the Beckhams might submit to the London day school hysteria.

[PiperIsTerrysChoclateOrange]

handwills how old are you.

I think he is above average looking to be honest, a 6 or 7 out of 10.

Since when does adults even think of the looks of a 16 year old.