If sharing a kiss with your child is natural why was Victoria Beckham criticised for doing just that?

Sharing a kiss with your kid should be the most natural thing in the world. Clodagh Finn observes the backlash as some chose to criticise Victoria Beckham for doing just that

How quickly the tide can turn. Just days after Victoria Beckham was hauled over the digital coals for kissing her daughter on the lips on her fifth birthday, it was nigh impossible to find a person to say what she had done was wrong.

Her initial post on Instagram, showing her kissing daughter Harper, along with the caption “Happy Birthday, baby girl. We all love you so much. Kisses from mummy”, sparked a shrill debate about the rights and wrongs of kissing a child on the lips.