Many school districts and private schools have a dress code, and so do many parents. This is an issue that affects young girls most, namely teenage girls. This is usually an excuse for sexual shaming, meaning all rules about dress for a child.
The common remark in response is "we can't let them go naked, now can we". Those laws I do support, on Christian purity grounds, meaning we cannot devolve into peacekeeping, which is what is common in nude societies. However, at the same time, child nudity in swimming areas such as beaches and lakes should be acceptable, even under the law.
The Tenth Commandment denotes entitlement, and is cross-referenced in the New Testament by the Greek root word πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers here to adult sexual entitlement in the form of dress policing, meaning wanting a child to dress a certain way, usually to deny sexual attraction to a child, to the point of seeking to impose said want onto her, leading to abuse by way of offense perceived.
It says in Colossians 3:20-21 KJV:
Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well-pleasing unto the Lord. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they become discouraged.
The Greek root word translated "provoke...to anger" is ερεθιζο (Latin: erethizo) and here refers to the offenses in the Bible, meaning any offense a young girl could perceive by being told to "cover up", which is usually humiliating even when stated in private from a father or mother. Telling a child to "cover up" is adult sexual entitlement, and the offense taken, through discomfort, irritation, or other upset, is what constitutes abuse and colors the adult's intentions as such until proven otherwise. The Greek root word translated "obey" is υπακουο (Latin: hupakouo) and refers in this context to a specific form of nudity, meaning closeness to mothers to the level of nudity, meaning skin-to-skin contact in a soothing, reassuring way that lulled infants and even older children into a place of security, with parents being safe people. Children were not blamed for their nudity then, as mothers protected children not by telling them to "cover up" but by divorcing the sexually abusive father, with all of the church community, mostly men and some women, then taking her side as well as the child's. The point of all this is that child nudity even was allowed by the Early Christians, and in the Old Testament as well. Fathers just dealt with the nudity, or married off their daughters early (1 Cor. 7:36), with 1 Cor. 7:36 meaning applicable today as God's affirmation to the primary prevention of child sexual abuse. Blaming a child for their nudity when sexually assaulted or raped by an adult is a form of victim blaming not allowed under biblical law, meaning children can dress however they wish, and adults just deal with it.
Children in the Early Church were naked up until adulthood, when fathers gave boys a set of clothing, and girls, at puberty or else at age 12, went with their father, with her then getting a gown to put on outside, while being naked in the home. Childhood was a time to be free then, including free with your body, as long as bodies didn't collide which is a behavior that children generally didn't internalize then.
The depraved and entitled parents who shame their children for anything will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Let them burn! Let them languish in descent into eternal Hell-fire! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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