Winnifred, 12, a precocious New York City girl on the cusp of adulthood, wears fish-net stockings and low-cut tops, striving to emulate her musical idol, Lady Gaga. Laura, a year-old kindergarten teacher from Alexandria, Va. Nichole, 32, of Clearwater, Fla. Perhaps they do not represent typical American youth, but they all feel the pressure to be beautiful and to be sexy. All three stories are intertwined in "Sexy Baby," an award-winning documentary about how technology and pornography are shaping the sexual identity of young girls. With Facebook, smart phones and instant access to the Internet, a generation of children is getting their sex education from online porn. It had its world premiere earlier this year at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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Eleven unselected 47,XXX girls, now 15 to 22 years of age, have been observed from birth in a prospective study of children with sex chromosome anomalies. A description of their growth and development is presented. The 47,XXX infants were not generally distinguishable from chromosomally normal children in the first year of life, even though there was a slight delay in neuromotor development. By 2 years of age, developmental delays in speech and language often became evident, and speech therapy was often necessitated in the preschool years. Early school problems included speech and language deficiencies, lack of coordination, poor academic performance, and immature behavior; these persisted throughout the school years. By high school age, a 47,XXX girl was generally tall and often subject to somatic complaints. Sexual development was generally normal.
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A girl is a young female human , usually a child or an adolescent. When she becomes an adult, she is described as a woman. The term girl may also be used to mean a young woman , [1] and is sometimes used as a synonym for daughter. The treatment and status of girls in any society is usually closely related to the status of women in that culture. In cultures where women have a low societal position, girls may be unwanted by their parents, and the state may invest less in services for girls. Girls' upbringing ranges from being relatively the same as that of boys to complete sex segregation and completely different gender roles. The English word girl first appeared during the Middle Ages between and CE and came from the Anglo-Saxon word gerle also spelled girle or gurle.
We like to think of school as a place where young people are safe, and of home as a place of refuge, but the reality is far more serious. A few months ago, in a school workshop session about sexism, gender stereotypes and future aspirations, I asked a group of children aged 13 and 14 how their lives might be different if they were the opposite sex. I expected some illuminating responses about clothes and hobbies, socially expected behaviours, perhaps likes and dislikes. They described crossing the street when they saw groups of men, avoiding certain routes home after dark, and taking preventative measures to avoid being raped. One girl described gripping her hockey stick like a weapon on her way home from practice. We are used to the upsetting truth that women practice constant vigilance to protect themselves from harassment, abuse and assault.