The online Journal, Sex Roles, just released a study which found that 72 % of 6 year old girls studied declared that sexier girls are more popular. And a whopping 68 % also said that they wanted to look sexier. Let’s not feign shock, Moms and Dads, we all know exactly what’s going on here. As my buddy Laura Ingraham rants, kids are being pornified- right beneath our noses. Is Lady Gaga, Abercrombie and Fitch, Homer Simpson or the lewd T-shirt manufacturers at fault? Give each of us a minute or two and we can rattle off dozens of perpetrators marketing sex to our little kids. I don’t like them any more than you do and I, like you, am intensely frustrated that these folks get away with sexualizing and objectifying our young girls. But in my book, as a pediatrician, the buck doesn’t stop with them; it stops with us- the parents.

While the study looked at the fact that the majority of little girls wanted to be sexy because they identified sexiness as a sign of popularity,they also looked at what protected girls from feeling this way. The answer? Moms and religion. They found that the media…