All I know is that Mylie Cyrus Seems to Have Done Wonders for Pre-Teen Sexualization.

[seabeyond]

10. i have read other studies and it does seem as if they are a little older, just above the average of

17 yrs old and they are using protection much more than the past, so that is cool.

i had a couple nieces. one, every summer i would have to dress. we had a rule. i ok'ed the clothes. no if ands or buts. we would often have open conversations and now today, at 21, she is a responsible woman with a healthy self worth.

my other niece was raised in a very dysfunctional home. playboy calendar on the wall in the kitchen "to honor the beauty of women" as little kids are running around. thongs at ten cause we didnt want her to have panty lines. abortion at 13 and her first baby at 18. she had to have a test to figure the father.

yes. i think it matters.

now, this 25 yr old niece recognizes that her childhood was part of the problem and since having the first baby, has worked hard at addressing these issues and now, i could not be more proud at the hard work she has done, putting all the pain, sorrow and wrong, into healthy places that allow her to move forward in her life and give her two little kids the kind of foundation she did not have.

i will also tell you, that raising my boys, i got the final say on what we bought them. and some years it was slim pickings. the tshirts that either honored stupid, lazy or violent. we didnt do that in our house. we didnt watch any cartoon that was about stupid or angry either.

at a certain age, i turned disney channel off. i did not like how they portrayed pre and teens. rebelling toward parent and snarky, disrespectful, ect.... kids and i would talk and i would tell them, that is not what a teen is, that is the conditioning of what society thinks a teen ought to be.

koko, i was a believe in clear boundaries for the kids.