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When Young Girls Grow Up Too Fast, Keep Them in Ballet Class

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Parents of girls dread the moment when freckles and flats first make way for lipstick and heels - when soon-to-be-teen girls start flirting with adult styles and sensibilities.  A new studyreveals there’s one activity that might help shelter young girls from the cultural rite of sexualization for a few more years… ballet. 

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