Tweens and what you can do about it

so ive been following the [Old link] and quite frankly it really pushes my buttons, so much so that i have lots a couple of nights sleep over it. It got me thinking that while parents are partially responsible so is society, there are some things that are clearly wrong, for example children cant buy pornography. Adults are free to make whatever choices they want but kids are kids and need guidence.

I spent alot of time thinking about how this sort of thing could happen, and really it boils down to some marketing guy went ubbidea

if well tell young girls to dress like whores and behave like bratz we can make lots of money, which quite frankly is messed up. The government not really caring allows it to happen and the marketing ppl are answerable to no one. But thats not the way the system should work, the government is duely elected to represent the people, and if the whole tweens thing gets me upset enough to do something about it im sure that there are lots of other ppl who will to.

Whats that i hear you say apathy? the idea is to make it so that people only need to send 1 email or make one phone call to help bring about a change. So the plan then is to set up a mailing list whereby people register once a critical mass is achieved the government will be requested to immediately have items that are clearly innapropriate (ie pushup bras for 8 year olds) items from shops. When they say no an email will be sent out requesting each person to email/phone their designated government official.

This will effectively voice the ppls opinion and bring the respective departments to it knees as email servers get flooded (and the filters wont be able to stop it as each email will be unique and not fit spam filters, as it will come from lots of different ISP's they wont be able to block the subnet the emails are coming from) due to the reliance of gov/business on email they will need to read through each one to ensure they dont miss the work related ones

So this only provides a partial solution to the problem, the next step is to reeducate children and parents. Ive organised a couple of meetings with some of adelaides movers and shakers to flesh out ideas on how to do this and will post more as it progresses smile

In the mean time what I would like to ask is that ppl who have a little bit of spare time and would like to see change to do a little research into non-newspaper stats and studies, into things such as.

Psychologists views on the tween phenomenon
Studies into the relationship between childrens behaviour and the toys they play with
Sales of g strings/padded bras for children
Who approves such products for sale
Innappropriate toys/clothing and the appeal to pedophiles
Studies on drug use in children (particularly primary school)

If you would like to get involved and do something please post links/papers/etc here or email benjobia at yahoo dot com dot au smile

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