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Obama on what young girls should listen to…

August 11, 2008 by forthardknox  
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…from an FHK reader:

Marie Claire sat down with Barack Obama recently and had a chance to discuss pop-culture, namely its effect on children (ie young women).

MC: We live in the era of Jamie Lynn Spears getting pregnant at 16, of teenage girls making “pregnancy pacts” — how concerned are you about the culture your daughters are growing up in?

BO: Michelle and I are constantly monitoring what our daughters absorb from the culture. And I don’t think we’re alone in feeling that the way the culture sexualizes young girls is a problem — that it encroaches on their childhood. Now, Michelle and I aren’t prudes, and Michelle has frank conversations with the girls. Malia will be going into puberty soon, so we want them to be well-informed.

One would assume a father who “constantly monitor[s]” what his “daughters absorb from the culture” wouldn’t allow them to listen to “Drop It Like It’s Hot”?

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