“Years ago there used to be separate worlds for children. Now they are exposed to the same things adults experience. Dr. Tarshia Stanley,in Final Call’s “America’s Sex-mad Culture”
Hat Tip to Necole and family over at Twitter-holics Anonymous. When I clicked on a link called “When Parenting Goes Terribly Wrong.” I was expecting murder and mayhem, but not THIS.
In my effort to combat the poor state of parenting in many quarters of our community, I am taking the time to provide basic advice that should be common sense- but some folks don’t have any. Therefore I bring to you another Parenting Tip From the Childless (PTFC)….
Dear Parents,
You know its time to leave a children’s birthday party when the other children start humping each other on the dance floor to the cheers of the adults around them. The appropriate action, should you witness such outrageous behavior, is to snatch the children (all children, not just your own) off of the dance floor, hop over the DJ booth and rip the cords from the wall, gang tackle the deviant camera person filming this sacrilege, and yank the tape/memory card from the camera and stomp them into the ground. What is not appropriate is standing around cheering as children simulate sex acts on the dance floor of a party and do nothing.
Judgmentally Yours,
Gina
Childless Unsolicited Parenting Advise-giver
What would possess a group of adults to stand around while their children are humping each other and simulating sex acts at a children’s birthday party? Why didn’t I see the arms of parents snatching their children off of the dance floor? What message did that send to the other children on the dance floor that these two were getting all the attention and being cheered on? Watch as some of the other little girls in the background try to get in on the action by humping the floor. World->Hell-> Handbasket.
These children look like they have had plenty of practice so you know this isn’t an isolated incident. This poor little girl, and boy, are both doomed before they even had a chance. They don’t even know why they are dancing in that manner.
We’ve previously written about the Sexualization of Childhood. You don’t need to have a symposium, just go to a children’s birthday party! What’s next? How much further can you push the envelope that this?
THIS is how much further you can push it:
Kelly is accused of helping start a “kindergarten” in his home where the children learned to have sex with each other and dance provocatively. From there, the children graduated to the sex club, which was a rented-out former daycare and hospital in the tiny railroad town of Mineola, about 75 miles east of Dallas. Four of the five child victims testifying for the state identified Kelly as one of the adults who sexually abused them.
To help perform, prosecutors say the children were given Vicodin-like drugs the adults passed off as “silly pills.”The alleged victims in the case include three siblings, who at the time of their outcries in 2005 were a 7-year-old girl, a 6-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl. The siblings’ aunt, who was 6, was allegedly forced to dance and have sex with the other children. Houston Chronicle
These children in Tyler don’t appear to be Black so if the allegations are true, they at least have a chance to escape because the state will step in to try to protect them.
This foolishness is not cute. Sexualizing children isn’t funny. They are too young to understand what boundaries are and why they need those boundaries to protect themselves. Innocence is a wonderful thing. There are some things you shouldn’t know as a child. To deny your child their innocence is immoral.
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that video was absolutely disgusting. i have never in my life seen such out of kids that age…very sad…ver very sad
That was disgusting. I literally could not watch the whole thing.
I don’t even dance like this. I ought to send this to DFCS.
I could not make it to the end either. You should send it to DCFS, good luck figuring out who put this out there. If CPS did come to get the kids, I can assure you some preacher would be on the courthouse steps saying that there is nothing wrong with this behavior.
Because these are little Black children, this is somehow more permissible and that is truly appalling.
That is just sickening. I really and truly hope those kids the help they need later in life.
OMG!!! The comments on this thread are stunning. THIS has been going on for years. I have been a school teacher since the mid 90s. I started subbing in the early 90s. I have always had this “I’m in this all by myself” type of chip on my shoulder where it comes to children dancing provacatively. It got worse when I realized that I was the only one who saw the necessity to walk through a school dance (middle school usually) like some nun at a Catholic school, tapping the shoulders of slow dance grinding teens.
You guys don’t know the half of it. Sometimes I feel like I am bragging but this seems to be a inner sense of disbelief on my part. Check out a school dance and you will be overcome with a sudden, and deep sense of despair.
No need to be a parent to know that this is completely trifling behavior! I am the parent of a female child and it is deplorable that our society is becoming more and more accepting of the sexualization of children.
From a very early age my child would excuse herself or actually say something to her friends and family if she didn’t think something was acceptable because I TAUGHT her that. These “parents” are seriously derilect in their duties as guidance and protectors for their children!
The mentality that this type of provocative behavior in CHILDREN is okay has become a disgusting and dissappointing sense normalcy that is unfortunately expected! Look at all of the voyeuristic crap that is glamorized for “celebrity” opportunity.
Al From Bay Shore…yeah, this situation may not be new but is has gotten tragically worse.
I could not make it to the end of this mess. This is just desgusting. The kids are just imitating what they see on TV, what’s really desgusting are the “adults” cheering them on.
I’d like to know who was filming this and who posted this online?
What’s really terrible about this is that these children’s faces are now on the Internet for all to see. Once something is online it stays somewhere forever.
LOL. Actually it was amusing that the lil’ boy looked a bit confused at what he was supposed to do. lol. Sorry that was kinda funny.
Well, as a mother of a 4 year old and a big sister to a 6 and 7 year old…all girls…the “Hoochie Coochie” dancing is pretty normal.
The girls don’t watch TV that isn’t PBS and (occasionally) the Disney Channel. My momma mainly listens to gospel in the car or old school music…but when it’s time to dance the girls (my lil’ one in particular) can “drop it like it’s hot” with the best of them.
Now we constantly issue cease and desist orders but it is what it is. She likes to wind and grind those hips. And no amount of fussing or admonishing from me or grandma is gonna change that.
But honestly the dancing really isn’t the issue. Various cultures vary on dancing (which is generally suggestive) from slasa, rhumba and tango to wining or bellydancing….children learn to dance whatever is culturally acceptable.
I was a winder and grinder in my day (put on the right reggae song and I can surprise some folk) but I wasn’t doing a damn thing. My mother used have hissy fits (saw some pics of me dancing once in high school) fit…but the dancing for me was a good way to relase a lot of (sexual) energy that wasn’t getting released any other way…and some kids just have more than others.
Now I don’t take too kindly to lil girls humping the floor but I also recognize it ain’t he dancing you got to worry about. Wall flowers can get knocked up too…and a Hoochie Coochie dancer is no more likely to get knocked up than a non- Hoochie Coochie dancer.
Ultimately it’s the lessons you give children about sex and relationships that’s gonna matter. Dirty dancing been around forever…it ain’t going anywhere.
@ Al from Bayshore…
I don’t care if this has been going on for years. No matter how many times I see it, my reaction is still the same…A HOT MESS. In particular that someone thought it was right to post online. That to me makes no sense…
@TalentedTenth….
I understand and I’ve not given up my disgust but I’ve decided not to chaperone dances – at least while I was teaching in Bklyn. I am in a High School in suburban Atlanta and I get the feeling that the sexualized dancing is not as much of a problem. Perhaps here is where I can go and not have to deal with this.
Sometimes I wish that some school systems would forgo the insurance and get kids to start moshing. Its a bit hard to wind to Black Metal.
@ JJ, how old are you?? I can’t believe that you found any humor in that video. There is nothing entertaining about babies grinding on each other. The video is extremely disturbing. I could not watch the entire video. I wished I never clicked on the link. Where is DFYS when you really need them??
The bottom line is that this display is not right; in fact it is down right criminal. I do not care if back in the day JJ you did some rump shaking, you at least knew enough not to do it front of your mother and based on what you said, I do not believe that your mother would have been filming your hip grinding.
My real concern is that this child has no boundaries. If an older kid in middle school or High school danced with her like that, she would not know it was wrong, if her weird uncle or the “Teacher” Gina highlighted danced with her like a dog humping a leg , she would believe she was just dancing. Why because every adult at this party encouraged her little show and no one stop the thing.
That baby does not know what she is doing but the adults do and clearly they do not care. I actually thought the adult who appears toward the end of the video would have broken it up but it appears as if she is trying to get into the act.
I will be praying for the little girl and boy tonight. Yeah DCFS should be called
@Attorneymom
I’m 28 and the boy’s reaction was amusing…it just was. Doesn’t mean I agree with lil’ girls humping the floor…’cause I don’t.
And no suggestive dancing doesn’t warrant DCFS. SOme parental intervention but not in DCFS.
@JJ: So where did your children learn to dance like that? I don’t think it’s something innate. I think they had to have seen it somewhere.
“I’m 28 and the boy’s reaction was amusing…it just was.”
I didn’t find any part of that video amusing and couldn’t finish watching it either. I think the fact that the little boy didn’t know what to do was actually very telling. Not amusing.
“@JJ: So where did your children learn to dance like that? I don’t think it’s something innate. I think they had to have seen it somewhere.”
I agree with Zoopath. This behavior is learned, I didn’t dance like that when I was 4. This is the first time I’ve ever seen children- that age- dance like that. Moms (and Dads) need to turn off the BET and MTV when their kids are around.
JJ, this video is breathtaking. I agree that, to some extent, there is some humor in this but the humor is sick, like a pregnant prostitute. I am a school teacher and, by law, I am mandated to contact a child services division if I see anything like this. I could almost argue why I may not have to do this if the kids were, say, twelve or thirteen years old. These kids were no more than six years old, and that is being generous.
I am a parent and I am seeing how my wife and I are developing less than stellar images of CLOSE FRIENDS who have children that seem a little “out of control”. For me, the children are a direct reflection of their parents and my immediate thoughts were about the parents. What the hell is wrong with them? Here is another question: What the hell is wrong with that peer group? Look at how these children are dressed. This is clearly a party that was organized by adults AND the other children somehow knew the routine. Form a circle and watch the two “go at it”. I got a question for you. Would you let your kids hang out with that peer group?
1. I have one child and 2 sisters.
2. My daughter has watched dancing with the stars so she waltz as much as she Rhumbas. But to answer your question as to where she got it from…heck if I know. Hip wiggling just comes with the territory where my little one is concerned. And the older ones do go to school so no telling…
3. I was a hip wiggler at 4 and I wasn’t allowed to watch anything but PBS..it is what it is.
4. As far as peer groups go…some of the sweetest, most innocent kids I knew were straight freaks away from the parents. You just don’t know.
5. No one is condoning the dancing. I did find amusement in the little boy…the fact that he was clueless was a good thing. This isn’t DCFS worth…it is having agood long talk with said parent’s worthy.
@JJ,
THAT was no mere hip wiggling. And no, they didn’t learn those gyrations and contortions from the Tela Tubbies or barney or whatever these kids these days are watching.
JJ what I am trying to figure out is how is it okay to refer to a 7 year old as a “freak”. Freak and school children houldn’t even be in the same sentence.
The age of these children and their behavior is disturbing. You said earlier that you knew your Mom was not happy with your behavior. These kids are bing cheered on by the adults around them. You atleast knew something was outof the ordinary.
I can assure you that when little johnny goes to school and does that to a classmate, he is going to get the boot.
JJ-
The fact that you found this humorous and considered the hip wiggling something natural for a 4 year old is part of the problem. As I said in a previous comment, this is something that unfortunately has become an accepted norm. Society is desensitized to the complete depravity of the sexualization of children.
This videotaping of children commiting these lewd(yes, lewd) acts is considered pornographic. What do you think is going through the mind of all of those pedophiles that are now viewing this video??? Well, they aren’t thinking it’s humorous! These children’s faces are now part of these sickos library.
JJ, you never answered the question. Knowing what you know now, would you let your kid among that peer group?
@Blackbutterfly…
Where did I say the dancing was okay? How many times did I say that little girls humping the ground was a no go? How many times did I say that I don’t condone said dancing from my own daughter…but there is only so much of that I can control. I get that b/c I was the same way as a child.
How many times did I say that said parents need a talking to? Children (even young ones) test sexual boundaries and it’s a parent’s responsibility to get that under control.
@Al
I don’t know anything about the peer group other than the little girls have a penchant for humping the ground…something I would not allow if they were at my house.
7 year old as a “freak”.
Who called the 7 year old a freak? – My reference wasn’t toward the children in the video…I was speaking about kids in generaal…older one’s in particular…that this idea that b/c the kid in the video was humpin the ground was some sort of indication that they’d be bad to hang around was BS.
And how many times do I have to say that the parents need a talking too…there’s bad behaviour on the parents part…that needs to be corrected…but I do understand that dancing alone isn’t a barometer for much….
I can remember they played “I wanna sex you up” at my 5th grade dance…I was 10/11 and that was 1990-1991. I wasn’t particularly inclined to sex anyone up b/c of it….
Damn all the talk about whether dancing leads to sexing leading to babies blah blah blah.
These children are only mimicking behavior they see on a REGULAR basis. They are being ENCOURAGED to simulate sex acts and APPLAUDED for that behavior. They are being told in no uncertain terms that doing things grown people should only do in private is what gets you approval. This is beyond “bad”, it’s damn near criminal.
These kids don’t stand a chance. I bet if you took a survey you’d find that most of them can’t read at their grade level. Sad.
JJ, I might sound like a hard ass (and maybe that ain’t so bad) but that video tells you all you need to know. I’m not blaming you for anything in anyway but I’ve seen this kind of thing happen so often, and I’ve seen how it leads in to other issues.
In all fairness to you, I note the fact that I have been working with children as a career for nearly 14 years and I’ve learned two things: (1) The average person doesn’t know much about how the public school system works and (2) The average person does not have the opportunity to see kids interact and develop from kindergarten age to their early teens. I have a one child and I am so thankful that I have had an opportunity to work in an inner city school that housed grades k – 12. Had I not had this experience, I don’t think that I’d be as vigilant about destructive influences upon a kid’s life and development.
I said the video was breathtaking but it wasn’t foreign. I’ve seen this before to the point of ad nauseum. I’ve also seen how this leads to 13 year old boys already deciding that if they were to get a girl pregnant, they would deny responsibility. Also, I’ve seen 13 year old girls making plans to deposit their children with their grandmothers so “they can hang out in the street.”
I’m of the opinion that people, in general – especially black folks, need to go into the inner city and see, first hand, the results of the total disintegration of family units and morality. Its a huge mind trip simply because news articles, statistics, and the occasional first hand story will not do justice to constant contact with these societal train wrecks.
Seeing that video didn’t shock me, it was like deja vu. Did you notice how the other kids joined in initially but the main character in all this, the youngest girl, continued to the point of upstaging and becoming the center of attention? This is what she will continue to do, establishing a sense of self based on sexuality. Its one thing to do it when you are 19 years old. Its a completely different thing when you are 13. The girl in that video was no older than 5.
Here’s something else. Someone taught her to dance that way and that little boy wasn’t entirely clueless – he knew how to simulate that sex position although it wasn’t as spirited as that of the young girl’s.
The rule of thumb for me is to ask “What is a desirable behavior for that age?” Clearly, what is happening in that video is beyond undesirable. This is not the same thing as eavesdropping on your parents and friends while they listen to a Richard Pryor album.
I too have supervised teen dances both at Job Corps and at inner city high schools. First I had to spend weeks watching the girls to ensure they didn’t wear something more suitable for the Pimp & Ho ball than to a high school dance. Then I’d spend the evening separating gyrating bodies.
Interestingly enough, I had a conversation with my SIL about this issue. She’s the principal of an exclusive private school in our area. What do they do at their dances? Swing-dancing, and the kids love it. No pressure on either party to comply with overly sexualized expectations. Having defined rules takes the pressure off.
One point I don’t think anyone else has commented on. Did you note the outfit the young lady was wearing? Why is a halter top appropriate attire for a five-year-old? I’ve been to the mall and seen the sexually suggestive clothing for young girls. It’s hard to find decent modest clothes. IMO, this is truly sick, and needs to be addressed.
I had a conversation with my SIL about this issue. She’s the principal of an exclusive private school in our area. What do they do at their dances? Swing-dancing, and the kids love it.
THANK YOU ROSLYN! People act as if kids don’t want and need adults to set boundaries as if whatever they do is okay because they are just being them. Children rely on us to save their arses and in the absence of rules or boundaries, it goes all Lord of the Flys up in there because the mom mentality takes over and the group spirals to the bottom.
Not only do these children have no boundaries, they are being encouraged to engage in this behavior.
STANDARDS! Get some! Enforce some!
Will children push against those boundaries, absolutely, in the sae way they will still fall into swimming pools without knowing how to swim. its up to us to put up gates and pool covers to slow them time and give them time to be pulled out of the water.
The solution isn’t to let kids do whatever they want to do. Even when they are rebelling, they want you to keep them from falling over a cliff.
“Interestingly enough, I had a conversation with my SIL about this issue. She’s the principal of an exclusive private school in our area. What do they do at their dances? Swing-dancing, and the kids love it. No pressure on either party to comply with overly sexualized expectations. Having defined rules takes the pressure off.”
@ Roslyn
I’ve always felt that way. School dances need to be as structured as a classroom syllabus. Dee Jays should know what songs are not permissable. As far as inner city schools are concerned, certain types of music should be completely off limits (dancehall reggae and particular varities of Rap). However, to offset the inevitable sense of restriction that students will have, dances can, and should, have themes. For example, a 80s or 70s themed dance would force the kids to independently preoccupy themselves with finding time appropriate attire (with this you have killed two birds with one stone).
I also think that dance should be a class offered in school. Some of the lewd street dances should have to have something to compete against them. I’m no prude, I understand that teens will experiment but this
is supposed to be done discretely. Back in the day, the basement “grind” parties were done in secret. The problem today is the lack of discretion and the absence of boundaries on the part of adults. The things that are meant for “grown folks” are out in the open and easily accessible. Furthermore, some adults seem to have little desire in telling their children that adult “things” are NOT for them.
I think it would be a great idea to have a 70’s dance party. I grew up in the 70’s and at that time and it was the hustle and the bus stop back then. I think the most raunchy dance then was the bump.
@Al, you are correct when you say “grind” parties were done in secret, they were for teens only and little kids weren’t allowed.
I wonder why that has changed? I think it has a lot to do with kids being consumers now. Back when I was a kid my mother would NEVER have given me money to buy all the things I wanted, I also didn’t have a TV in my bedroom until I was 13. I know of a mother whose daughter had a TV in her bedroom when she was four, with cable. Now that’s foolishness.
Eva, I agree with that. There is a kid consumer culture that dominates in two fundamental ways: (1) kids who, independently or by way of overly permissive parents, get what they want and (2) The insistence on adults to look and dress like teenagers. It is quite telling when a 13 year old who is wearing a 250.00 throwback jersey, matching baseball cap, baggy pants, and a pair of tims is thought to be the younger brother of his identically dressed father.
When I was at Job Corps I would listen to every record the dee-jay planned to play. I fired probably a half-dozen until I found one who had some sense. The kids loved the theme parties. Especially the 60s and 70s. They thought learning ‘the hustle’ was the funniest thing in the world. We had a ‘flip the script’ party where staff came dressed like the kids. That was too funny. Even they had to admit that we looked pretty ridiculous.
Kids want and desperately need structure. Part of the growing up process is about pushing against boundaries. If there’s no boundaries to push against, how will they grow up? They don’t. That’s why you see all these supposed to be grown folk running around acting like they’re sixteen. It’s a major case of arrested development.
I didn’t have a tv in my bedroom until I was a grown woman and bought one! We had one tv in our house, and most of the time it was on sports. I have one television set in our house now. My son does not and will not have a tv in his room. All tv watching will be done together as a family unit so that we can supervise what is seen and re-direct any negativity.
I remember that once when I was no more than 5 or 6, there was a family gathering, music was on, and I was encouraged to dance. The adults thought it was cute and funny, until I started gyrating my hips. Then it wasn’t so funny anymore. I was told in no uncertain terms that I was not to dance like that anymore. I knew from previous experience that if I kept it up I would be punished, verbally, then if necessary, a loss of privilege, and if necessary, physically. For my parents, it was that simple.
If a parent is not pleased with the way their child is acting, there is no negotiation involved, and there is no “kids will do what kids do” involved either. Perhaps when children start being more independent in their tween and teen years, it becomes more difficult to control their behavior when they are not around you. But in those preschool and elementary years, if the foundation has been set that the parent is the authority, if you tell a child not to behave that way and are consistent, the child will not behave like that. It’s when parents are wishy-washy about it that children don’t respect boundaries.
We cannot afford to allow our children to be so willful that all we can do is watch helplessly as these children we are charged with raising do whatever they want, mimic whatever they want, wear whatever they want, and roll all over top of adults. It makes it harder for authoritarian parents when parents with attitudes like “it is what it is” undermine your efforts. If I teach my (unborn) son to respect women and girls and then JJ’s daughter starts grinding on him like a video whore at the next barbecue, am I going to have to hear “it is what it is” when I advise her to put her child in check? And what I am supposed to tell my son afterwards when he asks me why other little boys didn’t have their mommies escort them off the floor and away from the party?
If I don’t do that with my son, some other woman’s daughter will be disrespected by him, like I was many times at college parties when nameless young “men” would try to grind their erections into me – no introduction, no “would you like to dance,” – and then quickly get hostile when I would step away from them to reclaim my own personal space. Somewhere those young men got the message that it is their right to act that way and my pleasure to receive that kind of attention – my obligation to pleasure them in a way that would (and should) shame me and my family.
This is twisted, it is pervasive, and we should not tolerate it. It contributes to a culture where women who cry rape are doubted at every turn (because we all want it – look at how we dress and act), and where men who are sexually aggressive are by turns, admired and congratulated. I am not overreacting. Because I know that there really are girls who equate their self worth with their sexual desirability from young ages (I am JJ’s age, and I and my little girlfriends were some of the many). And there really are boys who are pressured to act like pimps and sex fiends to legitimize their masculinity from very young ages. Was it amusing that the little boy in the video didn’t know what to do because – duh, he should have known he was supposed to hold the little girl’s behind while she grinded on him, and maybe thrust his pelvis at her on beat, where has he been all of his 6 year old life? He’s late. He should have mastered that by Pre-K. Somebody put him in remedial Pimphood 101, stat!
I’m sickened.
And I watched the video to the end, waiting for some parent to come shut it down. My eyes were welled up with tears by the end, because no adult stood in the gap for those children to save them from growing too fast too soon.
AL: “Did you notice how the other kids joined in initially but the main character in all this, the youngest girl, continued to the point of upstaging and becoming the center of attention? This is what she will continue to do, establishing a sense of self based on sexuality. Its one thing to do it when you are 19 years old. Its a completely different thing when you are 13. The girl in that video was no older than 5.
Here’s something else. Someone taught her to dance that way and that little boy wasn’t entirely clueless – he knew how to simulate that sex position although it wasn’t as spirited as that of the young girl’s.”
I have the most inappropriate sense of humor in the world. However I didn’t think this was funny at all. It’s sexual abuse and it makes me very, very depressed. I see that the link is gone. If I find out where they are, I will turn them in. Promise.
I am disturbed my the dancing on this video and agree that we have some people out there who do not deserve to be parents.
I have two little girl and they dress age approriate. I just think little girl should dress like little girls. But I remember growing up in late 70’s early 80’s and wearing tube tops and halter tops in the summer and there was nothing sexual about it. I understand that our children are more devloped now but are these items now considered sexual because some sicko decided that he likes to see grown women dress like children? And now these items equate to being sexy?
I bought ramba tights for my daughter (the ones with the ruffles) to wear under a dress and my husband had a fit. He was terrified that some old man would get kicks from that…..
@Al
U’re conflating issues. The inner-city issues aren’t b/c of naughty dancing. I know (young) surburban kids who do the same…it’s an issue of the over sexuaization of our society and parents who treat kids ike little adults
Crazy but I didn’t let my daughters wear tube or halter tops at all. My oldest was just able to start this summer and she’s nearly 15. I agree that dress is important and that children that dress like adults behave that way as well. Also, the over-sexualization in media plays a huge factor but I think it’s also a cultural thing. Children of other ethnicities are exposed to the same media and outside influences but you rarely see them booty shaking lol. Has anyone ever seen the traditional way that African women dance? It’s basically the same stuff you see in the strip club and the same stuff our little girls emulate. Often times there is no age limit in which a man can choose his bride. And when the women dance they get in a group or line and do it together in some cases. Like a competition of sorts. The woman who has the biggest ripest behind and shakes it the best usually wins the most desired husband or mate…just like the best stripper with the fat booty who shakes it the best makes the most money…and just like, unfortunately, how our little girls emulate without realizing what they are attracting. I think a lot of it is engraved in our genetic makeup and just applied incorrectly from a Western standpoint. I agree that parents she teach them right. It’s not funny and we don’t live in an African village here.
I think a lot of it is engraved in our genetic makeup
BG~ that is a dangerous and untrue argument. I don’t think you saw the video.
The little American girls are not getting that floor humping from traditional African dance. And, as you said, we don’t live in Africa. It’s not our genetic makeup, either. It’s corrupted culture. It’s skewed ideas of what it means to be authentically black. It’s an absence of respect for modesty in adults and as JJ says above, hyper-sexualization of children.
What a disgrace! I’ve raised 3 daughters; more than halve way to finishing 2 more- and never experienced this with my daughters.
DCF should be called. A group of people that think this behavior is cute, acceptable and worthy of getting online- need help.
Too many parents don’t want to accept the often thankless job of parenting. It’s a shame…
What a disgrace! I’ve raised 3 daughters; more than half way to finishing 2 more- and never experienced this with my daughters.
DCF should be called. A group of people that think this behavior is cute, acceptable and worthy of getting online- need help.
Too many parents don’t want to accept the often thankless job of parenting. It’s a shame…
I saw this video the other day on another website. I, too, could not finish watching. It is a disgrace and a sad shame that these children have been victimized like this. It’s not their fault; it’s the sick, demented adults that not only cheered them on, but Lord have mercy, they video taped it.
I, like some of you, grew up in the 70’s (boy, do I miss that decade) where we did wear halter tops, tube tops, and let’s not forget, HOTPANTS, but when I wore these clothes, it was never for sexual attention. I was a teenager, but I wasn’t thinking about sex. I was living in L.A. and it got hot, so I wore summer clothes. Boy have times changed. This is very sad, but I don’t think we’ve seen anything yet. The lines of right and wrong have been so blurred, that many in this generation can’t decipher where one begins and the other ends.
SMH (shaking my head).
as a DJ, I too, walked around and tapped children on the shoulder for this type of behavior. but Gina is right, the parents have to step up. Cause if they are not doing their job, it makes my job harder.