It is heart-warming to know that morality
and decency still have a place in America.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/12006f.asp

(AgapePress) - An analyst with Concerned
Women for America says the culture

is putting the squeeze on the dress styles
of young American females. [...]

It is heart-warming to know that morality and decency still have a place in
America.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/12006f.asp







(AgapePress) - An analyst with Concerned Women for America says the culture
is putting the squeeze on the dress styles of young American females. Dr.
Janice Crouse, senior fellow with CWA's Beverly LaHaye Institute, says from
this week's Halloween costumes to everyday dress, young women -- including
those as young as seven or eight -- are being forced to buy skimpier clothes
because of agendas from the liberal segments of society.

Crouse believes the reasoning behind the move toward more revealing apparel
is simple: the ongoing sexualization of society. "There is an agenda, even
in the fashion world, to pass along to our teenage girls the skimpy kind of
clothing that the world considers appropriate and fashionable," she says.

Acknowledging that it is extremely difficult for moms to find clothes for
their pre-teen and teenage daughters that do not reflect the world's
sexualized approach in style, Crouse says it is still vital that the effort
be made.

"I think it's very important for us as parents to say, 'We draw the line; we
are not going to follow these kinds of trends,'" says the family advocate.
She believes parents should start teaching children when they are toddlers
that Christians do not indulge in the permissiveness of the culture around
them.


"We need to instill in our little girls -- and our little boys, as well --
the necessity for modesty and the fact that we are separate from the world,"
she says. "We are not of this world; instead, as Christians, we do have the
necessity to reflect Christ in everything we do and say."

The media, Hollywood, and alternative lifestyles all influence the fashion
industry, Crouse says -- and that is why it is difficult to find modest and
attractive clothing for young girls. But avoiding indulgence in the
sexualized culture demands that parents persevere in the quest, she says.

It is heart-warming to know that morality and decency still have a place in
America.

It is heart-warming to know that morality and decency still have a place =

America.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/12006f.asp

(AgapePress) - An analyst with Concerned Women for America says the cultu=

is putting the squeeze on the dress styles of young American females. Dr.
Janice Crouse, senior fellow with CWA's Beverly LaHaye Institute, says fr=

this week's Halloween costumes to everyday dress, young women -- including
those as young as seven or eight -- are being forced to buy skimpier clot=

because of agendas from the liberal segments of society.

Crouse believes the reasoning behind the move toward more revealing appar=

is simple: the ongoing sexualization of society. "There is an agenda, even
in the fashion world, to pass along to our teenage girls the skimpy kind =

clothing that the world considers appropriate and fashionable," she says.

Acknowledging that it is extremely difficult for moms to find clothes for
their pre-teen and teenage daughters that do not reflect the world's
sexualized approach in style, Crouse says it is still vital that the effo=

be made.

"I think it's very important for us as parents to say, 'We draw the line;=

are not going to follow these kinds of trends,'" says the family advocate.
She believes parents should start teaching children when they are toddlers
that Christians do not indulge in the permissiveness of the culture around
them.


"We need to instill in our little girls -- and our little boys, as well --
the necessity for modesty and the fact that we are separate from the worl=

she says. "We are not of this world; instead, as Christians, we do have t=

necessity to reflect Christ in everything we do and say."

The media, Hollywood, and alternative lifestyles all influence the fashion
industry, Crouse says -- and that is why it is difficult to find modest a=

attractive clothing for young girls. But avoiding indulgence in the
sexualized culture demands that parents persevere in the quest, she says.







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young women -- including
those as young as seven or eight -- are being forced to buy skimpier clothes
because of agendas from the liberal segments of society.

It is heart-warming to know that morality and decency still have a place in
America.

(AgapePress) - An analyst with Concerned Women for America says the culture
is putting the squeeze on the dress styles of young American females. Dr.
Janice Crouse, senior fellow with CWA's Beverly LaHaye Institute, says from
this week's Halloween costumes to everyday dress, young women -- including
those as young as seven or eight -- are being forced to buy skimpier clothes
because of agendas from the liberal segments of society.

(AgapePress)
Dr. Janice Crouse, senior fellow with CWA's Beverly LaHaye Institute

It is heart-warming to know that morality and decency still have a place in
America.

http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/12006f.asp







(AgapePress) - An analyst with Concerned Women for America says the culture
is putting the squeeze on the dress styles of young American females. Dr.
Janice Crouse, senior fellow with CWA's Beverly LaHaye Institute, says from
this week's Halloween costumes to everyday dress, young women -- including
those as young as seven or eight -- are being forced to buy skimpier clothes
because of agendas from the liberal segments of society.

Crouse believes the reasoning behind the move toward more revealing apparel
is simple: the ongoing sexualization of society. "There is an agenda, even
in the fashion world, to pass along to our teenage girls the skimpy kind of
clothing that the world considers appropriate and fashionable," she says.

Acknowledging that it is extremely difficult for moms to find clothes for
their pre-teen and teenage daughters that do not reflect the world's
sexualized approach in style, Crouse says it is still vital that the effort
be made.

"I think it's very important for us as parents to say, 'We draw the line; we
are not going to follow these kinds of trends,'" says the family advocate.
She believes parents should start teaching children when they are toddlers
that Christians do not indulge in the permissiveness of the culture around
them.


"We need to instill in our little girls -- and our little boys, as well --
the necessity for modesty and the fact that we are separate from the world,"

she says. "We are not of this world; instead, as Christians, we do have the
necessity to reflect Christ in everything we do and say."

The media, Hollywood, and alternative lifestyles all influence the fashion
industry, Crouse says -- and that is why it is difficult to find modest and
attractive clothing for young girls. But avoiding indulgence in the
sexualized culture demands that parents persevere in the quest, she says.

It is heart-warming to know that morality and decency still have a place
in America.