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Pages tagged "sexualisation"


Sexualisation of kids now front page concern

Posted on News by Collective Shout · March 19, 2013 8:15 PM

Article from The Daily Telegraph

Parents believe childhood ends at 12 and blame pressure from friends, celebrity culture and social media for rushing kids into adulthood.
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Sexualisation taking an 'insidious toll' on children

Posted on News by Collective Shout · March 05, 2013 12:50 AM

Health professionals speak out about the increasing sexualisation of children in this article from the Sydney Morning Herald. Includes mention of Collective Shout campaigns and comments from co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist.

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Stop selling-out our daughter's potential: Steve Biddulph on raising girls

Posted on News by Collective Shout · February 04, 2013 7:07 PM

From Melinda Tankard Reist's blog.

After writing the multi-million best-selling Raising Boys in 2003, psychologist Steve Biddulph thought his life work was done.

But the parenting guru and father of two kept hearing sad stories of friend’s daughters and coming into contact with parents in despair about how unhappy their girls were. They were plagued by eating disorders, self-harm, and depression.

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"Safe sexting" apps and moral panics

Posted on News by Collective Shout · February 01, 2013 8:16 PM

Collett Smart is both a registered psychologist and a qualified teacher, as well a PhD candidate at Macquarie University. She regularly provides comment on national television and radio, regarding issues on mental health and child advocacy. Collett has worked with families in various countries around the world, for almost 20 years.

As published on Online Opinion

Has Laissez-faire parenting become ‘the new black’? With the help of home grown pot, parent-supervised binge-drinking parties and new self-destructing ‘sexting’ apps, teens can get safely inebriated, safely high, or safely sexually harassed, all in the comfort of the parental nest. The rationale being that teens will do such-and-such anyway, so why say ‘no’ to anything they want to do.

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ASB upholds complaints against lingerie brand Lovable

Posted on News by Collective Shout · September 27, 2012 7:44 PM

The Ad Standards Board has upheld complaints against Loveables 'Selfies with Besties' ad campaign.

The Facebook ad campaign encouraged participants, including girls aged over 13 years, to upload pictures of themselves 'with their besties' to win a prize. Images that accompanied the campaign included Jennifer Hawkins and other models in their underwear posing for 'selfies.' An accompanying outdoor advertising campaign featured similar imagery on bus shelters and billboards.

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In Defence of Healthy Girlhood: a new global marketplace for empowering products for girls

Posted on News by Collective Shout · September 20, 2012 8:48 PM

‘A safe haven from the commercialisation and sexualisation of girlhood, a place full of gifts that inspire and enable girls to reach for the stars. A venue that will motivate and support artists, independent producers and businesses to innovate and to explore new products that have the potential to change the world’

Melinda Tankard Reist interviews Inês Almeida. Originally published at Melinda's blog. 

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Sexualising Childhood - ABC radio podcast

Posted on News by Collective Shout · August 22, 2012 9:28 AM

Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist was recently a guest on ABC Local radio discussing the sexualisation of childhood.

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Mum who targeted Target part of larger backlash against corporate sexploitation

Posted on News by Collective Shout · August 20, 2012 8:30 PM

Melinda Tankard Reist in the Sunday Herald Sun Aug 19 2012

Also published at www.melindatankardreist.com

Last Friday, Ana Amini, a Port Macquarie mother and primary school teacher, posted a few lines on Target’s Facebook page lamenting the lack of age-appropriate, non-sexualised clothing for her daughter,8. She said they had lost her as a customer.

Six days later  the comment had attracted more than  72,000 ‘likes,’ and drawn thousands of responses from others concerned about scaled-down versions of adult fashion for girls.

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Not happy Target: one woman speaks out, thousands join in

Posted on News by Collective Shout · August 15, 2012 9:12 PM

[UPDATED] Mum who targeted Target part of larger backlash against corporate sexploitation

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Victory! Zoo apologises for 'hottest asylum seeker' competition

Posted on News by Collective Shout · July 24, 2012 8:17 PM

The petition calling on ZOO magazine to apologise and scrap its 'hottest asylum seeker competition' accumulated over 6000 signatures. 

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