What adult who wants a daughter to grow up with high self-esteem would even consider purchasing such items as these? No successful retailer would consider introducing an item like a padded bikini top for kindergarteners if they didn't think people would buy it.
It's easy to blast companies for introducing the sexy wear, but our ire really should be directed at the parents who think low rise jeans for a second grader is cute. They are the ones who are spending the money to fuel this budding trend. They are the ones who are suppose to decide what's appropriate for their young children to wear, not executives looking to brew up controversy or turn a profit.
Friends bow to peer pressure. I get it, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, etc are really popular. But that's a pretty weak reason for someone to dress their little girl like her. Parents NEED to say, "No, and that's the end of it."
In 2007, the American Psychological Association's Task Force on the Sexualization of Girls issued a report linking early sexualization with three of the most common mental-health problems of girls and women: eating disorders, low self-esteem and depression. There's nothing inherently wrong with parents wanting to appease their daughters by buying them the latest fashions. But is getting cool points today worth the harm dressing little girls like this could cause tomorrow?
A line needs to be drawn, but not by Abercrombie. Not by Britney Spears. And not by these little girls who don't know better and desperately need their parents to be parents and not 40-year-old BFFs! Parents should be doing their job as parents not acting like their children's FRIEND. The line NEEDS to be drawn by the PARENTS! PERIOD!
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