Exploitation of Children

Increasingly, I've been thinking of how adults exploit children. My thoughts are in this direction because of seeing children being used in commercials, political campaign ads, and in print ads. While walking from the office-computer room-storage area in my house, my attention was drawn to a picture of a little girl on the cover of a learning materials catalog. Something was odd about the beautiful little girl's face. It took a while for me to decipher what the issue was. Lo and behold, the child had on eye makeup! Why should an elementary school girl--I'm guessing 2nd-3rd grade--have on makeup? This discovery was so disappointing to me.