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May 23, 2007 Author: KIM THOMAS
Pre-pubescent girls as young as eight are pestering their mothers to buy them padded bras, according to a Canterbury University researcher.
Canterbury University masters student Lorie Clark is investigating the phenomenon of "tweenhood" and will soon publish a report on the impact of popular culture on girls aged eight to 12, which highlights the increasing sexualisation of girls.
Clark said among her almost 200 research subjects were many young girls who wanted a padded bra and idolised raunchy adult celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Britney Spears.
They also read magazines featuring articles on sexually transmitted diseases and how to get a man into bed, Clark said.
"My concern is that children are being encouraged to grow up faster than they used to or should be.
"Everything is pushing kids in that direction – television shows, advertising, toys, dolls, music videos and magazines.
"They take from these things their guidelines on how to be, how to act and they see that being beautiful and sexualised is good."
While Clark's research may be alarming to many, it identified that parents, particularly mothers, can have a lot of positive influence.
Clark said for girls aged eight to 11, parents had a greater influence than friends or the media.
She said parents should monitor the kinds of media influences their children were exposed to and try to talk to them about what they thought was "cool".
For example, parents could explain that Britney Spears was doing publicity stunts because she had a new perfume coming out rather than being inherently important or worthy, Clark said.
Clark will be discussing her research at the Canterbury Women's Club tomorrow.
Several stores selling brassieres confirmed they regularly had groups of girls aged between eight and 10 visiting and trying on cleavage-boosting bras.
"It's a bit sad to see a girl just starting off or not even needing a bra trying on something to try to look like she has big breasts, to look more like a woman," said one store assistant, who did not want to be named.
A child therapist and the chief executive of the Institute for Child Protection Studies, Anthea Simcock, said there was little research on the impact of modern society on girls before they reached their teens and how they were affected by a changing society.
Simcock said Clark's research was positive because it concluded that parents could have a positive impact on their young girls.
Tweenies being pushed to show cleavage !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Tweenies being pushed to show cleavage !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sad man..............ciyaal should be clueless about sex and sh!t until there 17 like me when I first found out.
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