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Thread #118633 Message #2577064
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
27-Feb-09 - 05:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: 13 year old dad-15 year old mum
Subject: RE: BS: 13 year old dad-15 year old mum
No, Chalkie....what IS a shame and a disgrace is that WE, the adults, have not taken on the fashion industry, the media industry, the music industry, the sex education 'industry' and *demanded* that they back off our children!
What is sooooo wrong is that WE, the adults, the very ones who should be protecting our children have allowed it to happen.
Yes, so many girls now dress like hookers, but they've been raised by parents who brought them Bratz Dolls and let them watch Paris Hilton and the Spice Girls...(and just soooo don't get me going on the Spice Girls) ;0)
The adults have walked away, and if you're surprised that in doing so, their kids are now out of control, lost in a world where they believe sex is all, not love, just sex..and flaunting your body is normal, in the most provocative way from as early an age as you can, then you're NOT opening your eyes as to the reasons behind it all.
Check how many magazines that kids read are owned by pornographers.
Check out what's being talked about in the 'teen' magazines, aimed at 10 years and up. Check out the relatively new 'teen sections' in the book stores and your local libraries.
Look inside....learn...go into the world where the children live..check out a few Myspace pages, (most are all the same), see the constant partying, the booze, the drunkeness that has become almost 'compulsory'...there is very little else on the pages of young people, not because they don't think, but because they're afraid to step out and let others see they do. They have become trapped in a dumbed down, alcohol driven, sex saturated world....
What the hell are they going to teach *their* children...?
WE are the adults, not them. WE are the ones who should be out there complaining, ringing up, asking questions, demanding answers..(I do and so do a few others on here)..but we ALL need to do it, we all need to go back to being our children's protectors, rather than telling them *everything* that can possibly go wrong, or may happen to them, thus absolving us of any responsibility, so we can get on with our lives.
Our children ARE our lives....and that is what so many have forgotten.