Children's Clothing Companies Designing Clothing Too Sexy for Little Girls

There seems to be an alarming trend in clothing marketing and retail to, well, give our young girls breasts. News Flash: under the ages of six or seven, most young girls have nothing on top, which can be attributed to the laws of evolutionary science. They don't need them.

And so, why are so many clothing manufactures making clothing with heart or v-necks, even designing and picturing toddlers with bikini tops that have the two triangles? Also, the children's section of most of the department stores seem to be no different from juniors, as the mannequins often have the chests to fill these clothes that the young girls do not.

Possibly, they think that breasts may make their clothes look more attractive and so lead to better profits; however, it encourages young girls to want to dress sexy at a time when they do not even know what the word "sexy" means.

And yet, it seems unfair to put all of the blame on marketing. After all, these outfits aren't sitting on their shelves collecting dust; they're selling.

It seems strange that parents would want their children dressing so old, especially with all the reports of pedophilia on the news and cable television, the last thing they should want to do is give someone a reason to look at their child sexually. Of course, no mother is standing on line at the department store hoping the clothes she buys her child will make her happy, help her fit in, and than get her kidnapped and molested. Parents who buy these clothing for their children simply aren't thinking.

I remember when I was young when what you could wear, how short the skirt or thin the straps, was a rite of passage. I was so excited the first time as a twelve year old girl, I was allowed to wear a spaghetti strap tank top. It made me feel so grown up: 1.) because I was finally big enough to fit into the clothes my older sister and her friends were wearing and 2.) because my mother let me walk out of the house in it. My first halter in junior high and tube top in high school were equally exciting.