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Parenting Debate: Is Rihanna too Raunchy for Children

Parenting Debate: Is Rihanna too Raunchy for Children

Mel C (former Spice Girls) is reported to have recently banned her daughter Scarlett from watching Rihanna videos. Apparently she said that female artists should ‘have more dignity’ and stop flaunting their flesh and featuring explicit content in their music videos and live performances.

“It’s vulgar and narcissistic and I worry about how it affects girls,” she said, adding that the Spice Girls weren’t interested in ‘pleasing men’.

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What side are you on? Do you limit your child from watching and enjoying certain artists, like Rihanna’s music or do you leave your child to watch and listen what he or she wants?

In excerpts from the independent two mothers weigh in on their views.

Against: Yvonne Hogan, mother of one says 

There is something very dark and insidious about the type of sexuality that is permeating popular culture today. It is not extrovert, playful, cheeky and confident, a la Spice Girls. Rather it is humiliating and submissive and demeaning.

Depressing to see lovely, young, talented, hard- working women, barely out of their teens emulating porn stars, naively playing out the sad fantasies of the cynical middle-aged men who profit from exploiting them and their talents, and believing themselves to be in control.

Every year, the videos and performances get more and more explicit, more pornographic. And as parents, I believe we have to speak out. So I join Mel C in saying that enough is enough. It’s time that female entertainers took their dignity back.

For: Gillian Fitzpatrick

She reports that her daughter may dance to whatever music she likes.

Rather than limit what children watch or not she says let’s embrace hands-on parenting that involves supervised access to electronic devices. Let’s champion reasonable discussion with our children about what is acceptable. Let’s embrace calm words of warning that aim to educate.

What are your thoughts? How should children be protected. There is a lot of sexuality everywhere and the question remains how to protect children appropriately.

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