THERE are calls for litigation to prevent shops from selling provocative clothes for young girls — but would the shops stock them, if parents didn’t buy them?

The Government is constantly being asked to take over the role of the parent.

Lots of the old values have been eroded and those well-tried and well-tested codes of conduct, the waiting and the courting seem to have been airbrushed away.

Taking its place is the need for instance gratification, which brings problems, mainly for the many young girls who are brought up to believe that physical attraction is their only value.

We must teach girls more self worth and I’m stressing girls as, sadly, they are the ones who are left with the problems, with a life of struggle, robbed of its potential and trapped usually in the benefit system.

Treating young girls as an additional decoration to mummy or to have them dressed as Barbie dolls, is not the way.

But how do you change things?

That’s a real problem, as we have already had at least four decades of constant sexual media bombardment, through television, soaps, clothing and magazines.

It’s not impossible to change things, but it’s not going to be easy.