Parents believe children ‘growing up too quickly’

THE majority of British parents believe their children are being forced to grow up too quickly, a study claims.

Celebrity culture, adult style clothes and music videos are all guilty in parents’ eyes of encouraging children to act older than they are, the Department for Education-commissioned report claimed.

The survey, part of the independent Bailey Review of Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood, found that 88% of people quizzed believed that children are under pressure to grow up too quickly.