I was shopping the other night with my kids at Target when came upon this silly clad Barbie Classic Doll... It made me think "what the heck are we teaching our children these days?" Barbie Company is already brainwashing (and has been for years) our children that "Barbie" has the perfect body and that's what girls should look like when they grow up. It all begins when they are young. Ever wonder why there are more of our kids are getting pregnant these days.
(Victor C. Strasburger, MD University of New Mexico School of Medicine)
Fact: One million teens in the USA will become pregnant over the next twelve months. Ninety-five percent of those pregnancies are unintended. About one third will end in abortion; one third will end in spontaneous miscarriage; and one third will continue their pregnancy to term and keep their baby. More than half of them are 17 years old or younger when they have their first pregnancy.
Approximately 40 percent of young women become pregnant before they reach 20 years old.
The United States of America has double the adolescent pregnancy and birth rates of any other industrialized country.
The poorer the young woman, the more likely she will become a mother.
Less than one-third of teens who have babies before the age of 18 finish high school.
Almost half of all teen mothers end up on welfare.
Less than 25 percent of births to teens occur within wedlock.
The birth rate for teens has been declining in recent years."
Yikes! Thanks for the Stats Doc.
Of course we cannot really hold Barbie responsible for any of these stats. It's pretty much all goes back to how the parents raise the kids. But it bugs me when toy companies make toys like this one which belongs in a Las Vegas Strip Club.
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