How we deal with these situations has a profound impact on whether or not our children develop into adults with healthy attitudes toward sex. We set the pace by the tendency to dress little girls in pastel colors and boys in bold ones. This simplistic act of sexual stereotyping leads into a pattern that extends out from the family into society. Marketing experts play on this when selling toys to our children and clothes to parents. We teach our children about sex at such a young age in this society.
Sex is all over the media.
You turn on the television and you see sex being thrust upon our children even in commercials aired during children's programming. It is very hard to teach a young girl to have a healthy body image when the models on TV look like they have been on starvation diets. I have heard children who were no more than seven years old talking about boyfriends and dieting. The teenagers have it the hardest. They have all the raging hormones we had when we were their age, AND the various collection of STD's are lethal, not just a trip to the doctor's for a shot of penicillin.