Little girls in bikinis: Inappropriate or much ado about nothing?
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Gwenyth Paltrow recently released a line of bikinis for the 4 to 8 set, and the swimwear has recharged a long-time debate over the inappropriate nature of scantily clad little girls. But the other side says it's not the lack of fabric that is sexualizing little girls, but the very conversation we're having about them. Photographed in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. (Mark DuFrene/Bay Area News Group)
Gwenyth Paltrow recently released a line of bikinis for the 4 to 8 set, and the swimwear has recharged a long-time debate over the inappropriate nature of scantily clad little girls. But the other side says it's not the lack of fabric that is sexualizing little girls, but the very conversation we're having about them. Photographed in Walnut Creek, Calif., on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. (Mark DuFrene/Bay Area News Group)
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By Jessica Yadegaran | [email protected] | Bay Area News Group
PUBLISHED: July 2, 2013 at 7:40 a.m. | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 5:35 p.m.
At the Clarke Swim Center in Walnut Creek, children splash and belly-flop away a Friday afternoon under the sun. The girls in this 10-and-under crowd are wading in the pool wearing all the ruffles, sequins and neon colors currently trending in swimwear. Some wear one-pieces. Some, bikinis.
And every parent has an opinion about it.
โI donโt let my little girl wear a bikini,โ says 29-year-old Pleasant Hill mom Katie Sunter, as her 7-year-old somersaults in a striped, rainbow one-piece she picked out at Old Navy. โSheโs too young. Whatโs the point in showing all that skin?โ
Girls have been wearing bikinis for decades, but a recent wave of skimpy swimsuits made for 4- to 8-year-olds by Zara, Dolce