Artificial babies. What’s the next? I’ve just seen a tv report about the up-to-date entertainment for adult ladies. it’s skillfully made baby-dolls called “reborn”. They look absolutely like real newborn babies, down to the smallest details. It is a new trend, very popular among some sort of girls/women… Actually I don’t know what sort it is… The “hobby” includes not only buying the “baby” itself, but also buying real cloths for it (in real baby shops), real bed, real perambulator, and all baby stuff: blankets, dummies, toys, etc. The newly “mothers” first give names to their “babies” (brrrr… my fingers resist to type the word “baby” when talking of that monsters), then they settle the “baby room” for it, they rock them, dress them up, walk them over in prams, outdoors, like real kids… They assemble the entire collections of these dolls… And of course they brag about their “newborns” on special sites, setting out their photos in different positions and in different attires. They comment each other’s photos as if they were talking of real kids: “Your baby is a wonder, she’s a real princess!”, “Meet my new boy, his name is … , I adore my kiddy” and so on. These women don’t want to have babies, at least currently (I’m far from blaming them for it, it’s everybody’s personal right to have or not to have children). But they have a desire to play these dolls. They spend their time and loads of money on it, instead of giving birth or adopting real babies. Don’t you think they need some treatment in clinic? This disgusting phenomena is one of the extreme manifestations of Consumerism, when even natural maternal instinct is converted/perverted to serve for the consumption of tangibles. Please, share what you think of this. And I would also be grateful for your corrections. P.s. At the picture there is one of that artifitial kids.