"Premature Sexualisation" Pushing Young Girls into Depression and Self-Harm: New Study
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"Premature Sexualisation" Pushing Young Girls... - 7/16/2008 12:54:32 AM
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SILVERNAME
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By Hilary White
July 14, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "When I was 11, I read a teenage magazine for the first time and that is when it kind of clicked, 'I should be like this'," says one young girl surveyed in a study by Girlguiding UK and the Mental Health Foundation, that has revealed three leading potential "triggers" for serious mental health problems in girls: premature sexualisation, commercialisation and alcohol misuse.
More generally, the report reveals a loss of childhood innocence and says girls today experience high levels of "stress, anxiety and unhappiness". The study found that premature sexualisation and pressure to grow up too quickly are two "key influences" in the anxiety felt by girls.
"Sexual advances from boys, pressure to wear clothes that make them look too old and magazines and websites directly targeting younger girls to lose weight or consider plastic surgery were identified as taking a particular toll," the report says.
Dr. Andrew McCulloch, Chief Executive of the Mental Health Foundation which worked on the study, said, "Girls and young women are being forced to grow up at an unnatural pace in a society that we, as adults, have created and it's damaging their emotional well-being."
"We are forcing our young people to grow up too quickly and not giving them the spaces and experiences they require to be safe and confident. We are creating a generation under stress."
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071405.html
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RE: "Premature Sexualisation" Pushing Young G... - 7/16/2008 2:50:31 AM
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This almost reminds of this old news article I picked up from Yahoo! News, the health section, where a university/national study makes a correlation between women who partook of breast implant surgery and suicide rates.
I'll have to fish through the net to post this news link...
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RE: "Premature Sexualisation" Pushing Young G... - 7/16/2008 9:24:35 AM
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I think it is commonly referred to as "Barbie Doll Syndrome".
Sad that society advances the idea that women should look perfect..in the eyes of men.
Sadder still that some churches seem to encourage the concept. Dumb blonde and fat lady jokes from the pulpit, "Christian" diet programs that spiritualize being thin, and of course, if you are a woman and an ounce overweight, you are not living for the Lord as you should.
So now we have nine year old girls who are rail thin thinking they are fat. Parents signing for 16 year old to get breast implants. Women taking out large loans to have have plastic surgery because their chin or nose or ears don't line up ruler-perfect.
Sad.
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RE: "Premature Sexualisation" Pushing Young G... - 7/16/2008 10:10:05 PM
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I really do not mean to make light of the situation, nor do I mean to politize it, or make it a gender issue; but how much of this is traceable to the natural order (the natural course of human events, and relationships), and how much of it is being pushed by the media, and political correctness (as far as equality of the sexes, and sexual orientation in all areas of life)?
Also, I believe that much of the same can be said about boys/men though I do not know of any similar study carried on for boys. Boys are being pushed and pulled to be a certain way as a man, and they are being pushed to grow up faster than before in a number of different ways. Granted, it may not be so much so as girls in a physical sense, but it is getting there.
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RE: "Premature Sexualisation" Pushing Young G... - 7/16/2008 10:15:28 PM
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Children should be allowed to be children. When I was 12 girls still played with dolls(well, not me- I was a tomboy) and no one wore make-up or dated, let alone participated in "hooking-up".
Premature sexualization pushes children to engage in behaviors their bodies and minds are not ready for, and this is damaging at all levels of their development. The cultural pre-occupation with appearance is damaging to all age groups, not just children. One of these days it is going to blow up in our faces.
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