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Mothers Union is a worldwide Christian organisation with almost 4  million members in 76 countries. Membership is open to anyone who has been baptised and who agrees with the Aim & Objectives of the Mothers Union, so our membership includes men and women, young or old, married or single, parent or not. Despite our worldwide strength and representation at global level, we are also a grassroots organisation, hence the phrase that Mothers Union is around the world, and around the corner.

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Dr Rowan Williams, our Archbishop of Canterbury, has said that 'A whole generation of "infant adults" is being created' by the commercialisation and premature sexualisation of children. A recent report 'details the intensity and effects of advertising to children. It reveals an army of marketing experts and branding gurus spending billions every year to directly target children to sell products and groom them for a lifetime of consumerism. They are inventing ever more ingenious ways of infiltrating children's worlds, subverting parents and families and exploiting children's emotional vulnerabilities in the name of profit. The report argues that engulfed with images of how they should look and be and what they should own and eat, children struggle to keep up resulting in increasing rates of stress, depression and low self-esteem and all time high rates of health problems like obesity in children.'

This conference has been arranged by The Mothers' Union in the Archdeaconry of The East Riding and is open to anyone with a professional or personal concern about the commercialisation of childhood. Delegates will be invited to share their views and, hopefully, their solutions to this increasingly worrying aspect of modern society.

The day will cover three main issues:

• The issues around the 'commercialisation of childhood' - premature sexualisation, peer pressure, consumerism, pester power etc; the values they represent and how they may conflict with spiritual values; and the impact they have on relationships within the family and the wider community
• Equipping parents and children's/youth workers to address and deal with these issues - awareness raising and education; dealing with the issues of commercialisation that affect children and teenagers; how our faith can guide us in this
• Taking wider action - influencing government and wider society.

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