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Written by TJ Marx
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Tuesday, 29 March 2011 23:19 |
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I'd also like to ask what you think dolls are for?
Children learn through play, when playing with baby like dolls young girls learn, imagine and mimic how to be a mother. It is in these early years of play, coupled with the parenting style of their own parents that girls learn how to be mothers. That is to say, the purpose of a baby doll is to, at least in part, teach young girls how to be mothers.
Likewise the purpose of non-baby dolls like the ever ridiculed barbie, is to allow the child to explore their own personality in a non-confronting, safe way. Through these dolls older children can experiment with different personality types without having to deal with the social consequences and isolation of poor choices.
For most of the 20th century baby dolls came with bottles, and one can only imagine the connection between this and the staggeringly high number of modern women whom chose, against all the medical evidence, against all the evidence to show it causes harm, to bottle feed their babies. There are even now strong emerging links between bottle fed babies and obesity in later life.
Before we judge this doll too harshly let us first too what has previously been on the market & what else is currently on the market and their social consequences.
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I admit that I'm a bit undecided on the doll. But it seems a bit much for a young girl. Maybe this lesson should wait a few years.