THE KIDS AREN'T ALRIGHT

MTV finally conquered the next generation: The class of 2013 is already becoming ruined .. images of perfect women with bouncing breasts grace television sets across the nation.. scenes of men with sculpted bodies equally broadcast for tweens and teens throughout the country.. bedroom by bedroom.. house by house. Midnight TV never looked so good--or so depression for kids that hate themselves.

USA TODAY reported recently that kids are now undergoing plastic surgery to alleviate the things "wrong" with them.. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reports that 160,283 children 18 and under had cosmetic interventions in 2008...

USA TODAY also reports that it's not just kids that need the surgery that get it, but often kids that want it because they want the perfect look.. that MTV design. Perfection..

The story is a little frightening if you think back only a few decades ago to America in the 1930s.. Several states had eugenics laws in place to get rid of the "degenerates" of society.. Adolf Hitler wasn't the only one that wanted to displace and kill of races of people he felt imperfect.. The world saw a eugenics movement aimed that purifying the world from the underbelly of society.. the poor, the welfare recipients.. the lame of mind..



American kids are faced with a constant diet of Hollywood stars, caked with makeup and eyeliner. American kids are equally faced with thoughts of grief as they look at their imperfections in the mirror.. But their imperfections are not that at all, but instead .. their own look. Our species is amazing.. no one is the same. Not one person is completely alike..



But instead of being proud of our features, or marveling at the beauty of earth, they are busy searching for imperfections on their body.. busy looking for things "wrong" with them. And now it has filtered to the youth of America..



What's wrong with flat-chested cheerleaders? And what's so bad about boys having pimples at the age of 15..?



Kids are kids. It never was easy.. Looks are judged quickly in our society..



But instead of allowing kids to change their looks, shouldn't we strive to change the kids? Shouldn't we work to give children, preteens, and teens the understanding that looks aren't everything.. and they will whither away?



Sadly kids anymore won't know this.. until their own features, often given to them with the perfection of plastic surgery, whither into dust as their age creeps in..



The kids aren't alright. But that's because the adults make them that way..