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Tories tell companies to stop sexualisation of children
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by Paul Conneally | February 18, 2010 at 05:18 am
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Tory leader David Cameron today released plans to stop companies who aggressively market to and sexualise children. In another take on his 'broken Britain' theme Mr. Cameron attacked a society where "inappropriate sexualisation" of children and young people was rife.
He cited the songs of Lily Allen as an example adding that he had forbidden his own daughter, Nancy, from listening to the popular star who this week won a Brit Award (see Lily Allen's Brit Awards performance).
Cammeron's comments come at the launch of the Tories new document, Responsible Business: Conservative action to tackle the premature sexualisation and excessive commercialisation of childhood, which is published today.
Mr. Cameron says that a Conservative Government would punish companies that sexualised young people in an attempt to boost sales and that they would also terminate school contracts with vending machine companies.
“You can’t cut children off from the commercial world, of course you can’t, but we should be able to help parents more in terms of trying to make sure that our children get a childhood and that they are not subject to unnecessary and inappropriate commercialisation and sexualisation too young,” Mr Cameron said.
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at 06:06 on February 18th, 2010
Not before time is it? Now we can have a mammoth round of enquiry, and commission and committees which will take take years. Then we might see some action, people have been complaining for years, so I won't hold my breath waiting for it to actually happen.
at 06:35 on February 18th, 2010
And I'm afraid that U'r right stejeb, & the same could/should be done here in the state .. .. ..
one of my co-workers, does not have cable, she does not wish her 2 children (under 6) to be inundated with all of the commercials and inappropriate shows, & I agree with her!
Stick to PBS or DVD's well, until they are closer to teen years anyway :)
at 06:27 on February 19th, 2010
This kind of marketing has been going on for a long time, wont hold my breath. A lot of musc videos should be put beyond the watershed as well.
at 11:25 on February 19th, 2010
if 13 & 14 year olds want 2 hav fun with each other, should it matter as long as they wear protection?
at 13:18 on February 19th, 2010
Not at all, as long as it's body armour and a chastity belt.