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Grade-school Lolita: ?So Sexy So Soon? - The sexualized childhood and how it affects kids younger than you think

View the article here 08/06/2008 In their new book ?So Sexy So Soon? authors Diane Levin and Jean Kilbourne write about the trend of children becoming sexualized at a young age due to media images and marketing campaigns that encourage youth to be ?sexy,? and they offer advice on how parents can protect their kids. An excerpt. Chapter one: Never too young to be sexy It has never been easy being a parent. But today, it has gotten even more difficult. A 2002 survey by an organization called Public Agenda found that 76 percent of parents felt it was a lot harder to raise children today than when they were growing up, and 47 percent reported that their biggest challenge was trying to protect their children from negative societal influences, including disturbing and confusing images, violence, and age-inappropriate messages appearing in the media...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 05, 2009 (boomark / email).