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"Joyce McFadden, a psychoanalyst and the author of "Your Daughter's Bedroom," said girls today are unprepared to withstand sophisticated efforts by corporations that prey on girls' desire to be popular. "As parents, we're so afraid to talk honestly with our daughters about their sexuality that we end up leaving them out in the cold," she said."

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HuffPost Readers: You Write This Blog on Obama. Read How.

October 23, 2008 | Author joycemcfadden

As McCain and Obama approach the finish line, I give you my blog to write why you’ll vote for Obama.

Instead of posting a comment to my writing as you usually would, simply write your own thoughts on Obama and submit them. As the comments come in, you can forward them to friends and relatives in the swing states, or pass them around to inspire a victory that’s strong and true.

My next blog will feature the 10 most interesting submissions.

Please keep your comments around 100 words or less. Have fun!

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After treating countless women who felt alone and isolated in experiences that they were unaware many other women were dealing with too, I began to ask what I could do to help them reach out to each other. The result was the launch of the Women’s Realities Study in which I interviewed hundreds of women from ages 18-105, about the most private issues as I sought to understand what events in a woman’s life impact her future happiness and self-confidence. What I found was truly revealing— the theme that most interested them as they explored their identities was how their relationship with their mothers influenced their understanding of themselves as sexual beings throughout their lives.

In my study of 450 women, they reveal that when their mothers conveyed that sexuality was somehow bad, or when they left sexuality out of the dialogue while they were growing up, it set them up to feel alienated from themselves--from their feelings, their instincts and their bodies.  This, in turn, made them lose faith in their mothers' ability to be there for them in the ways they needed, which created distance in the mother- daughter relationship over their lives together.
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