Recently, Britney Spears, a very popular american singer-songwriter, was finally taken off her conservatorship from her father, filing to end this and finally giving her control back. For those of you who don’t know, a conservatorship is a way for someone to assume legal guardianship over an adult. They can also help to deal with any medical, financial, or mental health needs for that person. In this case, the father of Britney, James Spears, took legal guardianship of his daughter because of an incident that happened in 2008 and other events before/after that.
This conservatorship was caused by incidents that happened throughout her life and especially in 2008. An article from Bazaar stated that, “Following a year of seemingly erratic behavior..” Some of this “erratic behavior” includes the following, 1. On Feburary 16, 2007 she spent 24 hours in a drug rehabilitation facility, 2. Returns on Feburary 17, 2007 and went to a salon and shaved her own head, 3. Attacked paparazzi with an umbrella outside of her believed to be ex husbands (Kevin Federline) home, 4. Check in and out back from California’s Promises Inpatient Treatment Facitlity, and so much more.
Now I’m not saying Britney Spears is all bad because she has brought us some great hits in the music industry. She has also come quite aways from her old days since being on a conservatorship from her father for over 13 years! It was for a good reason, and I believed it helped her. This also shows that it helped her because her father would not be filing for her to have control of her own life if she couldn’t handle it, which she can now since he is doing this.
Do you think she should have been on this conservatorship?
Do you think it should have been for so long? (13 years)
If yes, why?
If not, why?
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Good topci choice and well done overall Ella! I do think you could have gone into how the conservatorship impacted Britney personally. This information is out there and would have made for a better overall article.
Yes I think it should have been becasue she clearly needed some help. She was doing very bad things and nothing was going to stop her. I think that the 13 years was probably be fine becasue if he would not have done it for very long then she may have just gone right back to her bad habits.
I think she should have been on this conservationship because she clearly did not do some of the best thing in the past and needed someone to help her. I think it should have been this long becase the time helped her. If her father did not think it was ok he would not have done it.
Yes because of what happened. I think that it definitely should have been that long because her father had to make sure that she was fully ok. It was the best thing for her at the time. I think it helped her because nothing like that has happened that recently or even since then so that means that it helped.
Maybe towards the beginning the conservatorship was the right move but 13 years was just too long. I think 13 years under someones thumb, especially as a grown adult must be terrible and there was no need for it at this point in her life.
I think since she was not making the best decisions it was responsible of her dad to do that so she could get better and start making better decisions for herself. Although I think it was a good idea I don't think the conservatorship should have lasted as long as it did. I think once she got better she should have been given a chance to start doing things on her own again.
I agree that she was not making some of her best decisions and about how it was very responsible of her dad to make a conservatorship so she could not only get better, but by helping her it also helped her career too.
I think that since it has helped her in the long run that it was a good idea. However long it takes for her to feel like she can be out on her own is her and her fathers provactive. When someone is that mad they need help and that is exactly what her father did for her. I think he did the right thing and now she'll be back on her feet.
I agree with you, I do think that this conservatorship was a good idea, because it did help her in the long run. Yes, it did take a while to help her, but at least you know it worked.
Britney Spears, like many early 2000s popstars, suffered from heavy drug abuse, so the conservationship was probably a wise move in the beginning, but it ended up being like a prison sentence for Britney and a way for her father to control EVERY move she made to the point where people were concerned it was giving her huge mental deficits and that her father and ex-husband were mentally and physically abusing her. It should never have lasted as long as it did and there should have been a movement to free Britney from it much earlier.
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