Website helping families stung by elaborate birthdays
Ed Thomas
January 29, 2007

A Focus on the Family official says the "Birthdays Without Pressure" website, which explores pressure on parents to host elaborate and expensive child birthday celebrations, may not go far enough in probing the reasons behind this phenomenon.

Peer pressure for parents to host elaborate and expensive child birthday celebrations has become the springboard issue that has launched the "Birthdays Without Pressure" website and an accompanying media campaign.

The Birthdays Without Pressure site documents stories that include parents spending as much as $10 million for their child's birthday party. Other entries on the site recount the rental of a cougar, a llama, and a helicopter for entertainment at a children's party, as well as a fire station as a party location. the rest photo