29 April 2009
Robbed childhood:
young girls grow up
faster because
they’re pressured
by society to do so
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By: Elena Gorgan, Life & Style Editor
Child Women: Underage Girls Dream of Shoes, Clothes and
Implants
Society is pressuring 10-year-old girls to grow up, killing their childhood
There is perhaps not a single woman out there who has never played with her mother's
lipstick, makeup and shoes as a child. However, what is happening with today's children,
and especially with the girls, goes far beyond that, as they have become so imbued with
everything they see on TV, hear in music, or read in glossy magazines that they no longer
have a proper childhood. The girls under 14 of today know how to party (but not how to play
with dolls), how to dress, and spend their time dreaming of buying new shoes and
accessories, and having plastic surgery as soon as possible, a piece in the Daily Mail says.
The British publication got to speak with a couple, parents of a 10-year-old girl, Georgie.
Georgie looks up to glamour model Jordan (now known as Katie Price) for inspiration, and
has already started saving up her pocket money to have her chest enlarged when she
comes of age, a thing that doesn't seem to bother her parents that much, since they see
nothing wrong with it. Georgie has more shoes and accessories than her own mother,
attends parties in pink limousines and can often be seen looking at herself in the mirror to
see whether she has gained a pound of weight. Sadly, the Mail says, she is not the only one
to act so unlike her real age.
The so-called "child women" phenomenon is slowly taking over whatever is left of young
girls' childhood, with more and more 8 to 13 year-olds spending most of their spare time
trying to emulate the type of behaviors they see in adults, say, in the glamorized, retouched
pages of a magazine, and to which they're exposed on a daily basis. It's no wonder then
that few children of that age still play outside or have child-like preoccupations, the Mail
says.
Bob Reitemeier, ch