French Femininity: A double standard when it comes to child beauty pageants and modelling?

December 2020 Vogue images of Thylane Loubry Blondeau

Being French is very au courant these days. Thus far Bringing Up Bebe is the parenting book of the year.  Paris Fashion Week just ended. And, now, a French report offers several suggestions on how to fight against the hyper-sexualization of young girls.  While those last two sentences may seem contradictory, given that France is [...]

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Pretty Parenting in the Press: Last week’s media appearances

Little Man watching Mommy on NECN's The Morning Show, talking parenting

Last week, in between two month vaccines (I may have cried more than he did!) and StrollFit classes to try to lose that baby weight, I was busy talking about a few different strands of my research. 1) I appeared on NECN’s The Morning Show to talk about a new, disturbing trend: T(w)een girls posting [...]

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