Yah, I have a comment. Once again, it's mothers getting all the blame . . . what about the media barrage these kids are exposed to? I don't remember my mother dieting when I was a kid, but I sure as hell remember being exposed to Twiggy and the ensuing spate of thin and ultra-thin young women I saw on TV, album covers, ads, magazines, etc. etc. ad nauseum. The article Doreen posted alludes to this, but, once again, it's mothers who get the chop.

If it were made illegal to 'sell' images of female boneracks to teenage girls, or, better yet, if it were made mandatory for advertisers to present a variety of attractive shapes and sizes for women to be, I'll bet we'd see some turnaround in girls' perceptions of what it's OK to look like soon enough.

Rachel