by Dan Hensley

Created on: June 22, 2010

Remember your favorite child star from your youth? That child star isn't a child anymore. People grow from the time they are born. Everyone is naturally assigned their own height, weight, size, and shape. Over the past year, a pattern has been repeating itself from long ago in which the moral majority of over - opinionated ignoramuses have inappropriately interjected their social power in an effort to further regulate what we see & hear.

The biggest debacle has focused on Miley Cyrus as she has been growing from a young teeny bopper into a healthy adult. The latest craze isn't a provocative photo shoot or a pole dance, but rather the outfits Miley Cyrus wore in the debut of her new musical works on stage. Questions have rightly been asked since long ago about how much work child stars should do, what roles they should play, and what they wear. The point is easily and reasonably conceded that good taste should be a focal point at all times, however, even child stars have a need to be individuals with their own style and ability to express themselves.

We have entered a new day in Hollywood entertainment  where TV and music Executives push the envelope. Be assured that parental consent plays a hefty role in the long list of what child stars are allowed to do and how far is too far. There comes a time when child stars enter their young adulthood and then become adults. No one stays in childhood forever. If a child star holds on to their innocent, squeaky clean image for too long; only playing the young man or young girl, the public cries about them being creepy.

If a child star expands their horizons, diversifies their persona in both the professional & personal sense, the public cries about immorality. The contradiction is breath taking and confusing, filled with hypocrisy. Miley Cyrus did an interview recently in which she reminded the Associated Press that what happens on stage is just for show. Debbie Gibson, Tiffany, Gary Coleman, and a long list of other Hollywood child stars have been chided severely for simply growing up.

Law Enforcement authorities & Psychologists attribute the long list of ruined lives to extreme pressure & inappropriate expectations that no child should ever have to know aside from the realities of growing up. Countless news reports have surfaced over the decades about child stars who have grown up to become dysfunctional, alcoholic, drug abusers, and law breakers. Is it no wonder? This happens because the Hollywood

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