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Your support makes all the difference.Maureen Freely has missed the point of concerns over photographing children ("Let girls be girls...", Real Life, 2 March). It is, of course, that these children are posed. The posed photograph of her own daughter illustrates this. Models are not acting naturally. I have never yet seen a fashion model walk naturally. And was a photographer really on hand to catch a young girl peeking down her jumper to see if her breasts have grown?
Ms Freely seems to have had a sad childhood with parents who "blushed and averted their eyes" as she took shape. I'm sure at 66 years of age that I am much older than her and yet my parents and my friends' parents never acted in this way. Still, she shouldn't take it out on her own daughter who should be allowed to develop in private.
G E Gee
Emsworth, Hampshire
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