Friday, February 20, 2009

Your Kids - So Sexy So Soon

So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids (Review)
An extremely disturbing trend is the counterfeit culture's sexualization of children. From early childhood through adolescence today's kids are bombarded with negative gender images and skewed messages about sexuality. Twenty years ago ~ it would have been unheard of, even unspeakable, for manufacturers to market thongs for seven year-old girls. Yet today, crazy as it is, that's what's happening. So Sexy So Soon provides many other equally distressing examples of how our innocents are now just cogs in the "sex sells" marketing wheel. The impact is profound. So Sexy So Soon demonstrates the critical urgency of the issue and beautifully articulates what can be done about it by parents and by all of us working together to stop this insidious form of child abuse.

The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here

See also: The Truth About Teen Girls | The Rise in Teen Moms

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