I have just returned from the annual conference of the Girls' School Association, where the president, Vicky Tuck, spoke of the pressures on girls and young women in the modern world. You may have seen the press reports.
She said that girls are growing up in a 'Botox and binge-drinking' culture and a 'toxic cocktail' of pressure to consume vast quantities of alcohol and dress and act sexily.
She claimed society has forgotten 'the craft of parenting' and parents too often treated their daughters as friends.
Many wanted single sex girls' schools for their offspring in a desperate attempt to 'prolong the wholesomeness of childhood', she said. But schools were increasingly forced to teach in a 'moral vacuum' amid the spread of lap- dancing clubs, the worst excesses of the internet and coarse behaviour and language.
I wonder whether parents agree with her views of the pressures on their daughters?
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