Very true, but then tell me John, how do you *stop* children from seeing what is on the shelves, in the magazines, on TV, in the cinema adverts? Have you seen cinema adverts recently, often in children's films too??? HOW do you stop them from hearing what their friends are talking about, seeing what toys *they* are playing with, watching their DVDs, playing their computer games, when they go round to one another's houses?

It's a pressure that our parents *never* had.

You cannot stop children from seeing these toys, nor the images that abound, all around them, nor stop them from listening to the music, so endemic has it now become. You can blame parents all you want, and believe you me, I'm with you on that one, in so many cases, but it is not *entirely* down to the parents.

This is a problem that the whole of society has to learn to deal with. The question is, will they bother?

Women should not have to view 'prostitution' as a 'career' surely? Or have we reached that stage now? Have we sold the souls of others to a very dodgy place, purely on behalf of those who seek to use them for their own satisfaction? And do we relieve ourselves of any guilt about it all by simply 'legalising' it, then walking self-righteously away, whilst saying "That's MUCH better! At least the girls are 'protected' now from AIDS"

?????????

Every prostitute was once an innocent little girl, she had hopes, visions, dreams for her future....she still has feelings, just like you or me, no matter how deep she has hidden them. Her dreams may have shattered into a million pieces, her innoncence may have died a thousand times over..but she is still in there *somewhere*, that child, that person, the fellow human.

We turn away from what is happening to our children, what they are being surrounded by, at our own peril, but more importantly, at theirs!   

Phone up Woolworths, Toys R Us, Next, Gap, Etams...complain about the clothes our kids are being put in, the toys they are selling them, often there is now very little choice. You will find you usually hit a wall of apathy or non-belief...or you'll be given the age-old excuse "But children have always dressed as their parents have. Little girls LOVE to dress in this underwear, because their mothers do" "Little girls love the Bratz, they're our major seller!"

Yeah right!

And there-in lies a big part of the problem. If an older generation can see *nothing* wrong with how there girls are behaving, because that is how they themselves were groomed to behave, dresse, pout, wiggle etc....then what hope lies out there for the next generation, the babies of the Real Life Bratz Dolls?

Oh..and The Bratz already have a range of Bratz Babies, who wiggle and jiggle, show off their tummies, stick out their chests and pout.
The Bratz people have toned down their site a little now, they've removed some of the more overtly sexual images and words, but it still is deeply, darkly worrying.