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Exploiting Children for Halloween

When you open your door for “Trick-or-Treat” tonight, be afraid – be very afraid.

The little vixens may be there to haunt you.

Seriously. Newsweek magazine reports that this year, the sale of sexually provocative costumes to girls as young as 7 or 8 has skyrocketed. Think I’m kidding? Try “Miss-Behaved” the “Scar-let Pirate” and the “Child’s Chamber maid” costume.

Need the visual? Check this out.

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But you’ll probably get some of these little goblins at your house tonight anyway. They’ll be looking less like they want candy than. . . money.

As Newsweek reports, Americans spend some 2 billion dollars a year on Halloween costumes – and for little girls the costumes get racier, and racier gets younger, every year.

In fact forget trying to find your 10-year-old daughter a doctor costume (unless you are looking in the “boy costume” section). But if she wants ... Read More...

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