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Britney Spears: Should parents avoid nudity in front of their children?

Recent news has Britney Spears being castigated for a variety of "neglects" and "abuses" of her children, ages 1 and 2 years. Among these is being nude in front of them. To quote the NY Post today: "Let's hope that the damage to these two beautiful boys is reversible. That the sight of Mommy's nude self hasn't warped them." Is nudity in front of one's own children wrong? Does it depend on the gender of the parent compared to the child? In any case, at what age and under what circumstances does nudity among family members, especially in front of children become "inapproprate" or "damaging"?

Public Comments

1. it's not right, would you like to see your mom or dad naked? isn't it disturbing
2. I think that is ridiculous they are 1 and 2. My daughter is 3 years old and is usually in the bathroom with me while I am showering and getting dressed. I would say with boys the oldest they should be around their naked mother is probably 4 years old because that is when they start to loose the baby in them. But girls I don't know. My mother and I always changed and showered in front of each other so I never thought that it was wrong. We have the same parts.
3. The only reason it starts to be uncomfortable with older children is because people act like it's a big deal.
4. When children are little of course they see their parents naked - this is just another case of society sexualising nudity. Being naked isn't a sexual thing and society is becoming so warped that it worries about 2 year old children seeing their mothers skin. How ridiculous. My 9 year old son still wandered around the house in his birthday suit right up until about six months ago and he developed a sense of modesty. Children work these things out for themselves and they don't need us acting like a bunch of repressed Victorian spinsters on their behalf.
5. I don't believe in sheltering my chilld from facts, but I certainly think modesty and humilty could be more judiciously applied. Assuming she wasn't being self destructive, I really don't think her kids would have been hurt by what they saw, but definitely more so by what people are making of it. The second my little girl raises an eyebrow at my, er, business, is the second I shut the door to the bathroom. I'll tell her the facts as I see fit, not because the court of public opinion tells me to.
6. I think its different for women & men. My wife and daughter sometimes are in the shower together. I would not be so comfortable in front of my son. Then again, I can lounge around the house in my knickers all day in front of the kids, with my fat belly and beer breath, whereas my wife perhaps will never want to do so.
7. That quote from the Post wasn't serious, was it? The idiocy of society never ceases to amaze me. Nudity alone isn't damaging, period. I agree with Sapphrodite. It's just that we associate nudity with sexuality, which is quite unfortunate, really.
8. I think the nudity was the least of her problems. There were other concerns such as (alleged) drug use. I would say when they are little it is no big deal, and as they get older as long as it isn't gratuitous (ie before/after showers and so forth) it isn't a big deal either.