The following is about the "Midge" Barbie doll from Wikipedia:
Midge was sold "pregnant" with Nikki, who was a tiny baby inside Midge's magnetic removable pregnant stomach. This led to some controversy. Many people claimed that the doll was inappropriate for children, or that it promoted teen pregnancy. Another cause for this controversy was that Midge did not initially have a wedding ring, but this was later fixed. She also was packaged without Alan. Customers complaining about the doll led to Wal-Mart pulling the Happy Family line off their shelves.
Now people are complaining about tattoo barbie. Do Parents honestly believe their children are so stupid that if they get a doll to play with when they're 8, the first thing they're going to do when they hit puberty is get knocked up so they can be like the doll they've likely thrown away years ago? Here's an idea, if you don't want your kid to have something; don't let them.
If you can't control your child's behavior or can't be bothered to actually parent instead of having a corporation's toy shelves doing it for you, then your child is probably already in trouble anyway, and I doubt the Trampstamp Barbie is gonna hurt anything. Or maybe it'll encourage her to enclose herself in plastic, it seems about as likely to me.
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