All can think is that some people really, really hate their children, if they buy things like this for them.
Does anyone recall those "living baby dolls"? They look, and apparently feel, like a real baby, and are warm to the touch - some of them even have a breathing mechanism so their tiny chests rise and fall etc .
I remember that there was a TV programme about them and the absolutely barking women* who buy then and there was a lady who earned her living painting them - putting a blush on their little cheeks, and pinking up their lips etc. After doing this she had to put each doll in the oven to "set" the colour (like firing a piece of pottery I suppose).
TBH - I have never quite got over the image of someone putting what looks like a real baby into the oven on regulo 5 . . .
not all of the women were barking - some were very sad. There was a lady who had been full-time carer for her little grandson until he was about 3, when his mum had got married and moved with her new husband to (I think) Australia, taking the toddler with her. Poor grandma was heartbroken - she had a custom made doll crafted, identical to her grandson when he was a baby (took photos' to the manufacturer to get him exactly right - moles, birthmarks, ear shape - everything) and she spent all day "looking after" him. Her husband wouldn't have anything to do with the doll and wanted rid of it - he thought it was unhealthy, and I agree, but she was obviously in such deep grief that she couldn't cope with the loss of the child. Plus, while I agreed with her husband, I think he was an rse the way he went on about it - maybe he was just very worried, I don't know - but not an ounce of compassion