Being a mother is pretty bad scene. But being a mom stage brandishing a needle to give your 8 year old daughter, Botox injections every three months? Well, only up crazy. Beautician Kerry Campbell does this to the daughter  of Britney, a devotee of beauty pageants,  and defends his action by saying it is in fact a responsible parent.  “What I do for Britney now will help him become a star. I know one day it will be a model, actress or singer, and now having these treatments will ensure that it remains a more youthful appearance and face child for…

A little girl may have only stopped nursing a few years ago herself, but that’s no reason she can’t play mama to a Breast Milk Baby, right? The $89 doll by Berjuan Toys shows girls — and yes, this doll is by default for girls — how to nurture their babies by breastfeeding from their, um, breasts. To nurse their dolls, little girls put on a “magic top” with a flower stickers over the breasts, pull their baby’s mouth up to the flowers, and watch as the doll starts to “suckle and swallow.” The…

There are alternative ways of becoming a parent if traditional human child rearing is not your cup of tea. Partners of 26 years, Mark Kirby and A.J. Sapolnick, adopted their “son,” Digby, some 20 years ago in Paris. Yes, Digby is technically a “doll” but they don’t care to refer to him that way. To them, he is their child.

His parents, known to friends and family as “the Digbys,” haven given Digby the fabulous life that every orphan dreams of. He has custom-made clothes, gets to go on lavish trips all around the …