Turns Out, If Kids Hate You, It's Probably Because You're Ugly

Every parent knows it, but no one actually wants to admit it: kids are bad. Bad as hell. I mean, they're beautiful and special and we love them, but the precious bundles of joy can also be little terrors. 

There comes a time in almost every parents' life when they come to the realization that their kids hate them. Sometimes this moment comes well into their teenage years and sometimes it happens a lot earlier. 

While this is a reality that most parents have to come to terms with. If your kids are exceptionally mean to you, it might be because they don't trust you. 

Seriously. We're not even kidding. According to a relatively recent psychology study, kids find ugly people to be super less trustworthy. We all have our weird little biases. Most of us are more attracted to beautiful people. We want to see them in our favorite movies and we are more likely to buy products promoted by people with attractive features. 

Kids, however, take it to an entirely new level. As the study states, children make direct connections between a persons beauty and their ability to be trusted. 

To complete the study, the doctors generated pictures of 200 male faces, all with the same expressions but with varying degrees of attractiveness. The kids were asked to rate how trustworthy the faces were at first, then how attractive they were some time later. 

At the end of the study they found that while kids did associate attractiveness with trustworthiness, that didn't necessarily mean that they found the less attractive faces completely untrustworthy. They also came to the conclusion that many of these results differed with the ages of the participating kids. 

This may seem shallow. In fact, it is most definitely shallow. But it is obvious that all of us are born with some kind of crazy innate need to like pretty people on instinct. 

That's probably why we've dated so many crappy, douchey guys in our time.

All this to say, that if your kids can't stand the sight of you, it isn't because you're a bad parent. You're probably just ugly.