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Parents, don't dress your girls like tramps

Gabriela Pomeroy | 19:30 UK time, Friday, 22 April 2011

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American sports journalist LZGranderson recently spotted an 8Ìýyear oldÌýgirl at an airport with long blond hair. She had a tanned midriff, halterneck top and trousers with "juicy" on the backside. In he writes: "She was "the sexiest girl in the terminal, and she's not even in middle school yet .....What in the hell is wrong with us?"

More than 400,000 people shared the article on Facebook and there were 6,000 comments on his article.

Nannyogg commented on the story: "Trying to buy anything else at the malls/shopping centers is impossible. There is NOTHING else on offer for girls wear except sexy girls wear."

Tracy Clark-Flory writes about the backlash in :Ìý "If you ask me, this all amounts to a sartorial freak show that represents our deep anxieties about young female sexuality."

Hadley Heath that "parents are the ones with the money!Ìý Mom and Dad can say no to the bad decisions their kids want to make."

And Jennifer Moses recently asked in the : "Why do so many of us not only permit our teenage daughters to dress like this-like prostitutes, if we're being honest with ourselves-but pay for them to do it with our AmEx cards?"

Her article had more than 600 comments including this one from Shannon Shacka:
"My kids are free to dress as they wish. The clothes DO NOT make the person or character! I could never look at a 12 or 13 year old and think them as a prostitute...SHAME ON YOU!!"

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