Someone may recognize the title of this as the same as Jennifer Moses online article published awhile back where she also did a live interview. Every parent should read and hear her comments. Nothing else seemed to express my thoughts better than her question because it is the question I keep asking myself as well: Why do we let our daughters dress like tramps?
An amazing addition to all this - that raises even more questions in my mind - is that the woman asking these questions is apparently not a professing Christian. All I can think is that there is something definately missing in the puzzle. What's missing are all the many Christian voices who speak loudly about how to gain wealth and enjoy living - but are noticably silent in expressing any concerns or teaching about how Christian's should deal with the serious issues relating to today's fashions.
As this article's subheading says, "Women of a liberated generation wrestle with their eager-to-grow-up daughters—and their own pasts." Which brings me to the question as it did this author, "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?"
She goes on to express her theory relating to them dealing with their past - which I believe is correct in many cases. She then adds, "So here we are, the feminist and post feminist and postpill generation. We somehow survived our own teen and college years (except for those who didn't), and now, with the exception of some [more accurate would be few] Mormons, evangelicals and Orthodox Jews, scads of us don't know how to teach our own sons and daughters not to give away their bodies so readily. We're embarrassed, and we don't want to be, God forbid, hypocrites....
"As for the girls themselves, if you ask them why they dress the way they do, they'll say (roughly) the same things I said to my mother: "What's the big deal" "But it's the style." "Could you be any more out of it?" What teenage girl doesn't want to be attractive, sought-after and popular?
"And what mom doesn't want to help that cause. In my own case, [and I think most moms can relate] when I see my daughter in drop-dead gorgeous mode, I experience something akin to a thrill—specially since I myself am somewhat past the age to turn heads."
But the truth is as her Wall Street Journal article reveals, promiscuity has hit new heights and it includes preteens, teens, as well as college and young adults. Obviously because of the constant stream of semi-pornography from about every media source. So it's past time to take notice and begin making some serious changes in the direction we are going - much less the slimy pit we're allowing our children to slide into?
It is somewhat blunt and crude, but the final comments in this woman's article should awaken everyone. "It's easy for parents to slip into denial. We wouldn't dream of dropping our daughters off at college [or our preteens and young teens at a friend's overnight party] and say: "Study hard and floss every night, honey—and for heaven's sake, get laid!' But that's essentially what we're saying by allowing them to dress the way they do while they're still living under our own roofs.' "
It's time to think seriously, why do we let them dress like that? It's time to come to grips with the answer - because the end results may not be so pretty. More important - we will answer to God for the results it brings.
An amazing addition to all this - that raises even more questions in my mind - is that the woman asking these questions is apparently not a professing Christian. All I can think is that there is something definately missing in the puzzle. What's missing are all the many Christian voices who speak loudly about how to gain wealth and enjoy living - but are noticably silent in expressing any concerns or teaching about how Christian's should deal with the serious issues relating to today's fashions.
As this article's subheading says, "Women of a liberated generation wrestle with their eager-to-grow-up daughters—and their own pasts." Which brings me to the question as it did this author, "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?"
She goes on to express her theory relating to them dealing with their past - which I believe is correct in many cases. She then adds, "So here we are, the feminist and post feminist and postpill generation. We somehow survived our own teen and college years (except for those who didn't), and now, with the exception of some [more accurate would be few] Mormons, evangelicals and Orthodox Jews, scads of us don't know how to teach our own sons and daughters not to give away their bodies so readily. We're embarrassed, and we don't want to be, God forbid, hypocrites....
"As for the girls themselves, if you ask them why they dress the way they do, they'll say (roughly) the same things I said to my mother: "What's the big deal" "But it's the style." "Could you be any more out of it?" What teenage girl doesn't want to be attractive, sought-after and popular?
"And what mom doesn't want to help that cause. In my own case, [and I think most moms can relate] when I see my daughter in drop-dead gorgeous mode, I experience something akin to a thrill—specially since I myself am somewhat past the age to turn heads."
But the truth is as her Wall Street Journal article reveals, promiscuity has hit new heights and it includes preteens, teens, as well as college and young adults. Obviously because of the constant stream of semi-pornography from about every media source. So it's past time to take notice and begin making some serious changes in the direction we are going - much less the slimy pit we're allowing our children to slide into?
It is somewhat blunt and crude, but the final comments in this woman's article should awaken everyone. "It's easy for parents to slip into denial. We wouldn't dream of dropping our daughters off at college [or our preteens and young teens at a friend's overnight party] and say: "Study hard and floss every night, honey—and for heaven's sake, get laid!' But that's essentially what we're saying by allowing them to dress the way they do while they're still living under our own roofs.' "
It's time to think seriously, why do we let them dress like that? It's time to come to grips with the answer - because the end results may not be so pretty. More important - we will answer to God for the results it brings.
