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Article Category: 2006 November
Dangerous to portray children as "sexual objects": Centacare
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Article originally prepared on : 07 November 2006
Dangerous to portray children as "sexual objects": Centacare
Thecommunity should never allow commercial agencies to treat children ascommodities and to sexualise them in a search for profit, says a SydneyCentacare manager, responding to concerns over children in advertising.
Virginia Banks, manager of Centacare's school counselling program told the Catholic Weekly that it is dangerous to portray children as "sexual objects" because there are adults who see children that way.
"In this day and age of the internet and television advertising, we can't take away our children's innocence.
"We can't afford to do anything that does that or portrays them in any other way except as children."
Ms Banks was responding to a report written by Australia Institute researcher Dr Emma Rush, Corporate Paedophilia, which attacked corporate Australia over the "sexualisation" of children.
Ms Banks says children are "vulnerable" when it comes to advertising.
"Kids see someone posing a particular way or using a particular product, and that is what they relate to," she said.
"If that lip gloss makes me look like that then I should use it.
"Girls from about 10 are conscious about their body image which reflects what they see and read."
She added: "Parents have to know what their kids are watching and remember they are vulnerable.
Chris Meney, director of the Marriage and Family Office of the archdiocese of Sydney, said: "Childhood is a precious time.
"Itis a time in the life of a person when they can feel relaxed andaffirmed about who they are and experience the value of unconditionallove from their parents and family.
"Young children should nothave this period of their lives disrupted by engagement withexperiences which prematurely sexualise them.
"Quite aside fromthe violation that it causes, having to confront such realities at atime well before they are able to adequately deal with them makeschildren particularly prone to abuse by predatory adults.
Headded: "We need to protect children by being much more diligent in ourresponses to those electronic and tabloid portrayals of sexuality thatare highly inappropriate.
"This is not prudishness. It is simply adults taking action to grow a culture that values and protects children.
"Sexuality is a powerful and wonderful gift that needs to be gently and lovingly explained to children by their parents.
"Weshould never allow commercial agencies to treat children as commoditiesand to sexualise them in a search for profit," Mr Meney concluded.
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Don't let children be sexual objects (Catholic Weekly, 22/10/06)
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