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I finally had to sit down with my 11-year-old daughter for “the talk.” Despite my best efforts to preserve her innocence and protect her from growing up too quickly, I simply had to tell her some important facts of life.
No, we didn’t have a talk about how babies are born. This talk was about America’s assault on girlhood. The time finally came for me to explain to my daughter the relationship between media and marketing and money, and why some people think nothing of exploiting girls if it increases their ratings, sells advertising and beefs up the bottom...
American Girlhood Lost to Marketers
Our children and grandchildren don't run the house and appliances...we do. We provide the best materials and messages we can and teach at every opportunity that presents itself.
Disney and the networks be damned. Her father must be a hollow man to smile benignly as his daugher is pimped out for a few bucks on national television. But hey, it's worked so well for Brittany's family right?