Parents, get it together...Literally

Sometimes, when I'm on the web, reruns of Dr. Phil are on TV, and I am tuning in here and there. Today, there is a 14 year old girl on the show with her parents. This little sweetie dresses way too provocatively for her young age, and her parents are trying to convince her of that. They are also, literally pointing fingers at each other insisting that everything is the other parent's fault.

I stared at this girl's mom for a minute...and then at her daughter. The mother is wearing a black mini-dress with black leather boots that go just above her knees. She has on a red and black blazer that does have a conservative appearance to it...but seated on the stage, all I can see are her thighs in black nylons, the top of her boots and that blazer. Her dress is so short that when she's seated, the blazer hangs over it...and she looks like she doesn't have on half of her clothes.

Her 14 year old daughter, is ALSO wearing black boots, just above the knee, with a short, black (dress or skirt). Her nylons are beige, rather than black...but the point is, like mother like daughter! From the waist down, they are just about identical, and if what I'm saying sounds a bit immodest, it matches the way these two women look. In the course of the show, it has come out that this mother has bought this young girl thong underwear...HELLO?? That doesn't send a CONFUSING message??

We need to teach our children how to protect themselves, be responsible adults and STOP giving all their power away! I can't believe Dr. Phil hasn't said to this mother that her child is only copying the way that SHE is dressing! People, she's a TEENAGER!!! Teens are SUPPOSED to rebel and push, and test limits, and parents are supposed to SET those limits and stick to them. Do these parents love their children or themselves?? I see this father blaming the mother for everything going on and the mother blaming the father, while she's out buying her daughter thong underwear! In the meantime, this daughter gets to keep leaving the house looking like "bait" for some scumbag who has no qualms about feeling a false sense of power when he possibly rapes her, psychologically and physically making himself one with her, and possibly getting her pregnant. Tell me, what good will finger pointing do then??