Little Girls Gone Wild: Why Daughters Are Acting Too Sexy, Too Soon

It's not a pattern, it's about parenting. The good girls will be good girls no matter the influences. Likewise slutty girls will be slutty even without those influences. It's not about TV, it's about parents. Most of the slutty black teenage moms, don't actually watch much TV, because they're out having sex with no parent around.

I raised my daughter in a way that you didn't run around without clothes on and that you didn't wear clothes that was provacative. She turned out good but told me that I was too much of a prude and didn't want her children to be ashamed of their bodies. I never felt like I made her ashamed of her body, I just wanted her to respect her body as a temple not as a playtoy. You have to respect yourself before anyone else can and the way a person chooses to dress and act has a lot to do with it. It is not okay to look or act older then you are. Have fun and wait your turn to become an adult. Enjoy the years as a kid for as long as you can. Because We as adults have a responsibility to say NO to our children. They need to learn NO before they become adults and get out on their own. They are used to getting what they want otherwise and will do whatever it takes to get it. So parents start by loving your children enough to say no. After alll this then we wonder why there are so many perverts out there?

now this is scary..What are their parents thinking....

very well said i agree with the last post. no one to blame but the parent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. no way was I allowed to do any of this crap let alone be allowed to be exploited by the crap that goes on TV

if I had a girl and she asked me if she was pretty. I would say no you not pretty, you are pretty amazing, pretty creative, pretty intelligent, pretty good, pretty beautiful, pretty terrific; you are not *just* pretty.

Ugh, iCarly is NOT a good alternative to Hannah Montana. I can't believe the comments on this. Sam is THE most annoying, OBNOXIOUS girl on television! I can't stand her and would NOT want my child to act like her. Whenever that show would come on I would very quickly change the channel.

Eww, This is disturbing. Absolutely disgusting, And those poor kids!! :(

I agree.....the parents are in total control over their children and if they are so desperate for money or rub elbows with the famous then go for it themselves. Leave yer children to grow up. We adults are supposed to protect our young not throw them to the wolves. If parents started acting like parents instead of greedy idiots then perhaps pageants and retailers would think twice about trying to sexualise our children. We have enough trouble with pedophiles and men who think it is ok to date little girls. Excuse me to all the real men out there. Anyone who thinks it is ok to date a child is no man.

You don't want to raise yer kid....you want a best friend......go find one yer own age. You can have a good relationship with yer kids without resorting to being their best friend. Parents need to take responsibility for their choices....good or bad. Children are a gift....innocent.....let them be kids!!! Those who think it is ok to do this to their kids......should be spayed and/or neutered

It's because moms want to live vicariously through their daughters. They want them to be pretty and popular and "hot". They want them to be cheerleaders and prom queens. Nobody wants an ugly, dorky daughter. It's a competition between the moms. It makes them feel better about themselves if their daughter is the one all the other little girls look up to. I know what I'm talking about because I have two daughters, 16 and 19. Some of these moms are sickening. This oversexualizing of young girls has been going on for at least 20 years. I had trouble buying things for my little girls 12 years ago that weren't too sexy. Yes, you can parent and say no and not let them watch certain things, but unless you homeschool your kids and live on a farm in the boondocks, they are going to see and hear things. I don't know what the answer is. I do think it's getting worse every year.

It is the parents fault ..parents can control every thing in a child life but given the due you the parent are not the only infulance in there lives so you have to set the GROUND RULES up first and say to them there will be punishment for you going outside those boundries! that simple ! cant make rules for them to live by and say the ol'saying oh well next time your going to be in trouble ..I HEARD IT ONCE I HEARD IT A 1000 TIMES from my ex- telling her daughter that my daughter heard me when I TOLD HER THE RULES AND SHE KNEW i WOULD STICK TO THEM ..its called structure is all guidence,it not rocket science...they need it so give it to them...and you moniter every thing that goes on outside your home they are involed if you cant then you are going to be in trouble ..and some parents get as caught up into this whole STAR thing as the kids do "oh my lil'girl could be a star make all kinds of money and I could live like a QUEEN thing ...heck its all over the tv these days so kids see this as well I had 3 channels when I grew up we need to get back to that kids dont even know how to socialize with out a phone in the hand our a computer for christ sake I meen its sad .....

If I had a daughter, there would be no way in hell that she would look or act like these little girls running around out there in these skimpy outfits with enough makeup to make Tammy Faye jealous and hair as high as the sky!!! These parents who are allowing their daughters to participate in such things should loose their privilege to parent as well! You are asking for your daughter to get molested, wind up pregnant at an extremely early age, or killed and if you are willing to put your child out there and risk these things than you need to be charged with neglect if not more that that! Shame on you!!!

I don't have children yet and in todays world the thought of bringing a child into it is scary. To the person who thought iCarly wasn't morally wrong, well I have to disagree. I went to my little cousins 9th birthday where there was an iCarly marathon playing and the dialog coming from Sam was more on the adult side and not something I want my children watching. Nor would I let my children, if I had them, watch Hannah Montana or Suite Life on Deck. Honestly I probably wouldn't allow them to watch Disney or Nick at all.
As for the dance class, I can remember taking dance lessons as a little girl and our outfits were probably concidered risque and looked similar to the girls in teh photo, but the song we danced to was Pump the Jam, and 80's song and it was a jazz type dance, which means no hip thrusting or anything like that. I also took Tap and I remember our song was a country song. Again, don't remember any hip thrusting or any type of vulgar movements. I'm sure the parents knew the type of dance being rehearsed for the recital and if there was a problem then one of them should have said something then. If they didn't know, my question is, "Where were you while your daughter was at dance practice?"
Todays moral standards are rather low and not getting any better. For the parents out there, I wish you and your children the best.

There is a fallacy that children who don't grow up with some innocence will experiment at an earlier age. This is not true. I have never lied to my children. They never believed in Santa Claus, and they always knew where babies came from. However, they did not experiment at early ages either. In fact, they both love cartoons, studied animation in university, and were later than their peers when it came to forming relationships with the opposite sex. They never felt any desire to be any older than they were or to prove that they were grown up. The problem with the above photo is that the children probably have no idea that their parents are putting them in danger of being taken advantage of by men (and women) who are taller and stronger than them by dressing them in risque outfits.

Yes, that photo is disgusting; if a grown woman wants to dress that way, fine, but who was in charge of the wardrobe for these young girls and thought it was okay for them to dress like that? It's the same thing with Toddlers and Tiaras; those girls are preschool age and look like Jon Benet Ramsey! Also, they act like monsters since the parents are pressuring them and letting them get away with murder. I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and no one I knew, boy or girl, was dressing too adult for their age. It's the same with the Bratz dolls; they all look like they've had a whole-head botox treatment and a nose job gone wrong. On top of that, their clothes are too mature. There's nothing wrong with having a "passion for fashion", heck, Jem and Barbie did, but it's another to have too mature fashions for a young group.

Don't underestimate this problem for the boys either. Nearly ever superhero has insanely huge muscles and tight suits too, and boys have their share of body image issues too. Young children should be just that, children, and save the grown up clothes and problems for adulthood.

Gee, don't kids have parents anymore?

I agree that there is too much sexiness in our young children. It isn't just in how they dress, but in how they talk and in what they do. However it IS the parents job to stop it. They can say 'no' they are the grown up and the child is the child. Who cares if they say it isn't fair or that their friends have it. No means no.

Also to the points being made about kids hitting puberty early so the sex is coming earlier. Puberty onsets early in obese children because you have to have a body fat percentage to have a period. I didn't start mine till 14 because i was thin. With a growing obesity rate there is a growing early onset of menstration. Not to mention all the added hormones in the meat the kids are eating, that doesn't help.

Also that whole bit about every generation talking about the girls dressing sexier and sexier. I asked my parents, and my grandma and they have never seen the issue with little girls. Teenagers yes, but little girls no.

Come on people, its been the lamentation of every single generation that the next generations girls act "too sexually". It's called progress, sex becomes less and less tabu and society becomes more and more liberal. In 30 years these girls today that are "too sexy too young" are going to be saying the same things about their daughters, and so on and so on...

All these things get a young childs mind on the wrong track...but seeing preteens with the bodies of a supermodel is a result of
their diets. They have way too much estrogen in their bodies thanks to all the soy products in food.

The photo is terrifying! I cannot believe a parent would pimp their child like that--and that is exactly what they are doing. Can you say "pedophilia"? When we read about adults hurting children--this is why. And don't tell the rest of us it's a little girl's choice to be in pageants or dress or dance like that. It's just sad and pathetic. I feel so sorry for these girls and what their futures will hold...

while we're on this subject, are there cartoon producers who can actually make cartoons less violent and weird? How many aliens and superbeings can a little one take?...