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Articles & Op-eds
France has introduced legislation to make pageants for children under the age of 16 illegal. Britain is considering similar measures. …
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Articles & Op-eds
(First posted, July, 2013) Who in life thinks others have an obligation to accept them? I certainly never did, even…
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Articles & Op-eds
What do these stories have in common? Story #1: USA Today reported that 9-year-old Hannah Robertson scolded McDonald’s CEO Don Thompson for…
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Articles & Op-eds
(Reprinted from: Mamiverse and others) Before Karen Kataline knew what a calorie was, she was restricted to 500 of them…
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(posted November, 2012) On the eve of the conclusion of what has seemed like an interminable election cycle, I’m in the mood…
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CHILDREN are being used to advance the personal, political and social agendas of adults before they have had a chance…
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Before we can have a discussion about whether the sexualization of children is damaging to their development, we need to be able to…
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“It’s very bizarre,” he says outright. “And, it certainly– Patsy and JonBenet didn’t approach it that way. We– they just…
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Child beauty pageants and issues about food and weight seem to go together like pizza and beer, peanut butter and jelly,…
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In the current and bizarre climate of “Dance Moms,” pageant mothers gone wild, “Princess by Proxy,” and horrifyingly sexualized children, it’s hard to imagine…
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