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My 15-year-old Daughter Is Involved With A 21-year-old
My sister has brought up my daughter for the past 15 years. All morals and values have fallen by the wayside. My daughter is spoiled and undisciplined.
She has had sex with 21-year man and is not challenged. She goes into pubs drinking with my sister. I have no influence I'm seen as ogre because I don't agree with her behaviour.
She has hardly been to school and my sister now faces prosecution. I would like to take my daughter back. I resent what they are doing. I feel I should do more but I won't get my daughter's co-operation.
All they seem to care about is that she is very beautiful. At 15 she looks and acts much older. I'm worried she is acting like a tart. I feel my daughter is nothing more to them than an ornamental doll.
I have shown my disapproval on many occasions but I feel my views are irrelevant to them. How do I handle this?
My Cousin Bought Her 10-year-old A Thong
by ESTHER SWALES, Mail online
High Street stores have come under fire for selling inappropriate clothes with sexual connotations which are aimed at children.
A leading British nurse called on parents to boycott stores selling clothes aimed at the 'sexualisation' of young girls - and Mail online readers overwhelmingly agree.
Click here to see the article that provoked such a storm.
Using our reader comments service, you reacted with shock and outrage at the fashion trend, and revealed many other examples of clothing and accessories on sale which are unsuitable for children.
Your accounts of other items of clothing bought or on sale for youngsters were alarming.
"My cousin purchased a thong for her 10-year-old daughter with a picture of a cute small cat, in leopard print and the words 'sex kitten' emblazoned across the front," writes BW, from Sutton, Surrey. "I was honest in my opinion to her that it was completely unsuitable for a child, but she felt it was grown-up and cute."
Angela, from Glasgow, said: "A few weeks ago I saw a little girl of about 11 wearing a t-shirt which said across it 'Hands off - for display purposes only'. To make matters worse she was wearing a pink cardigan with the Playboy logo on it. I was horrified, couldn't believe my eyes and personally think her parents should be arrested."
Joanne, from Cardiff, said: "I live next door to a woman who has a 5-year-old daughter, and shes thinks its clever to let her daughter wear bras and thongs! She seems to think it's wonderfull that she can buy bras and thongs for her. Needless to say the child also acts like a 16-year-old."
Many of you were appalled at the way childhood is being shortened by fashion trends and parents. As Liz, from Nottingham, said: "Stores would not sell these goods if mothers didn't buy them."
"No wonder the age of sexual active youth has started at a lower age than ever before and the number of teenage pregnancies has risen," Sharon, from London, pointed out.
Emma, from Manchester, said the British seem to allow children to pursue fashion more than in other countries.
"Go on holidays anywhere else in Europe and you see children that look like children, dressed in children's clothes - and then you pass British children on the street looking like little Lolitas or worse in boob tubes and tottering on high heels at the age of six or seven," she said.
Astonished readers were struck by the broad sexual culture in Britain where "there seems to be a lack of responsibility taken by parents, who blame the shops, and the media".
"Do they have no sense of morality themselves?" Jagdeep, from Southampton, asked.
Some readers were so disturbed by items on sale that they actually took matters into their own hands.
"I recently complained to staff in T J Hughes store Liverpool about slogans on children's tee shirts which were totally inappropriate for six or seven-year-olds. The t-shirts were removed from sale following this but I think the manufacturers/designers of such clothing should be named and shamed. Every child deserves a childhood free from this sort of thing," said Sue Jones, from Liverpool.
Many readers also called on shops to treat the issue seriously.
"It is time retailers showed much more responsibility towards our society and stopped producing goods which promote sexuality," Colin, Nelson, from Lancashire, wrote.
Mother Says 4-year-old Daughter Found By Good Samaritan After Walking Away From Clay County School Following Mistake
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A Clay County mom experienced a terrifying moment on Friday when she said she went to pick up her 4-year-old daughter from school and the child was nowhere to be found.
On Tuesday, Dariel Stockman said she is so grateful that her daughter is now safe after being found a few miles from Argyle Elementary by a good Samaritan hours after leaving the campus.
Now, some school employees are on leave while an investigation into the incident is underway.
Stockman said a teacher at the school sent her daughter out with the wrong dismissal group so she was walking around a neighborhood for hours in the heat.
“I felt like I couldn’t breathe and me and my husband were yelling and screaming. We kept asking them ‘How could y’all let this happen? How could you lose a 4-year-old?’ She’s a baby, this is the second day of school. She doesn’t know her way yet,” Stockman said.
At dismissal, Stockman said her daughter was sent out with the students who walk home but she was supposed to be in the line for parent pick-up.
“As I’m driving through the line, there are teachers with walkie-talkies that come up as the children are being picked up. I told them her name and just kept going through the line and she never came out. Other children are coming out and she’s not coming out yet,” she said.
Frantic, Stockman got out of her car and went inside the school.
“I saw her kindergarten teacher, and she was at the table with other kids and I asked her, I said, ‘[teacher], where’s my daughter? She’s supposed to...You’re supposed to bring her out here.’ And she said, ‘I don’t know. But I can assure you that she was in line with me. She walked here to the cafeteria. She’s in here somewhere,’” Stockman said.
Stockman then began running around the school yelling her daughter’s name. That’s when other faculty members and the school resource officer got involved.
“I called my husband. He came, rushed up to the school to help look for our daughter,” she said. “He’s running around neighborhoods. I never saw her on the video with her teacher. She was not in that line.”
Stockman along with school employees and the Clay County Sheriff’s Office continued to look for her daughter. A few hours later, she was found miles away from the school by a good Samaritan.
“She was by herself for a long time. There were ponds, it was cars, and anything could have happened. She could get hit by a car. I cannot believe it. I cannot believe that she had gotten that far away from school with no help, because the teacher led her out to go walk with the walkers,” Stockman said.
The Clay County School District released a statement about the incident.
The District is aware of the incident that occurred Friday, August 11th, during dismissal. Clay County District Schools takes the safety of all children as our top priority, and as a result of this incident, District leadership is working with the school on reviewing their safe dismissal protocols and procedures. Human resources started the investigation and the employees involved have been placed on leave pending the outcome of the investigation.
“I would advise [parents] to put some kind of location device on their children and even some kind of phone even if it’s just a cellphone, I can just call for help,” Stockman said. “I would also advise them to write your information on their backpacks or anything that you could find so they can call you. They can’t memorize a number yet. If you can get them to memorize your information or address, you know, that will help too.”
Stockman said the two teachers involved have not apologized.
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