Just to be clear my response was about the sexualization of pre-pubescent children not teens and pre-teens who are becoming aware and curious of sex themselves. I'm talking about parents who encourage their second grade girls to wear lipstick so they're "pretty" and their first grade boys to be "manly" to "empress the ladies."
>>>"It has been observed by sociologist for years now that western culture has developed delayed or nonexistent adult hoods."
On that, I completely agree with the sociologists, though I may differ on the cause and effects of it. I contend that somewhere along the line mature adulthood became a negative. Immature adults then started living in the glory days of their pasts and forsaking their present. Rather than revel in what they have and where they are they only revel in what they where and what they did. That's a fools endeavor, and so as they have kids and are living through them, making their kids things they're not or things they may not be ready for yet.
All these things I'm talking about, I'm talking about in a societal context. Kids aren't raised in vacuum, so the actions of one parent impart itself on the child of another. A few parents pressuring their kids to be "Ms Popularity" or "Mr Macho" effects the peers of that child as well.
I'm setting aside irresponsible parents for the sake of this discussion... irresponsible as in, "mommy was chasing daddy around with a rocket tied to her..." (yeah that was a real conversation) or "I'm leaving early today so I can see mommy before she has to go to jail." Rather, I'm thinking about "responsible" parents, upstanding member of the community (relative to the community of course), types, mainly because they seem to be the worst about pushing sexualization on their kids. They seem to be the ones who forgo a real life, they seem to be the ones who most try to relive their youth through their kids and they are the ones that have the Disney Channel and such that produces these "kids" shows that their boys, and most especially, their girls are emulating.
I just wish I could tell the parents to get a life and enjoy it. Don't sit at home thinking about days gone by. Don't live through your kid. Be an example for your kid so they will know how to be an adult and how to enjoy it, even when dealing with the shit that life is inevitably going to throw at you. Get up, go biking, go dancing, go out with another couple, go to the movies have a few drinks and pull the stick out of your ass. Quit micro managing your kids and let them be kids.
>>>"It's weird and still leaves me wishing for some kind of explanation behind the scene."
Me as well. "Picture convictions" always remind me of the Calvin & Hobbs where Calvin had Hobbs taking pictures of him with a clean room (he had just shoved the shit out of frame) and with him holding a bat and glove (instead of his usual mask and Calvin ball) so that he could later in life show what a well adjusted, picturesque child he was. Without context any situation can be construed to impart the meaning an editor wishes to convey.
Though it's hard to imagine any rational for this video, for all I know, me being without sound, this could be a ring of daycare kiddie molesters it may not be sanctioned at all by any authority.