Argumentative Essay On Beauty Pageants

Imagining if one day you saw your five year old daughter with a full face of makeup and high heels. Now she looks like a miniature adult. Not only is she a miniature adult, but now she also is very self conscious of herself and has an eating disorder at five years old. Child beauty pageants have some pros and a of lot cons to them. Also, they can affect a child’s development. One should consider that child beauty pageants can lead to a lot of mental health issues for kids at a very young age.

Child beauty pageants started in the 1960’s, and have been increasingly more popular in the past decade. Currently, there are over two hundred-fifty thousand children under the age of fourteen competing in beauty pageants (Triggs et al 2012). There are no age limits in place; age groups range from zero months to eight months all the way up until eighteen years of age. Parents who enter their children in pageants can damage their children for the rest of their lives. However, pageants do help the beauty industry, and essentially create jobs.

“It doesn’t matter if you can breathe. All that matters is if you look good”. Just Googling the search term “beauty pageants coming up,” will result in 2,710,000 results appearing in 1.18 seconds. Children are the fastest-growing segment of the beauty pageant market, with annual children's competitions attracting an estimated 3 million children, mostly girls, ages six months to 16 years, who compete for crowns and cash. Infants, carried onto the stage by their mothers, are commonplace. April Brilliant, reigning Mrs. Maryland and the director of Maryland-based Mystic Pageants, says pageants give little girls a chance to "play Cinderella." However, playing ‘Cinderella’ can cause children to develop insecurities or self-hatred if they don't

GHD impairs a child's immune system, making the child more vulnerable to illness, as well as weakens the strength of the child's heart and lungs." Children that are deprived of enough sleep are more likely to have stunted growth than children that get enough sleep. Watching their children slowly lose energy due to no rest, parents feed them excessive amounts of sugar and caffeinated drinks to keep them vivacious throughout the whole pageant. Frequent consumption of such components in children puts their health at risk. "Caffeine causes a child's body to excrete nutrients such as caffeine and magnesium in their urine. When this happens too often, a child's body does not have the nutrients it needs to produce strong bones (Wonderly)." When children consume caffeine, it contributes to the lack of nutrients to develop a strong body structure. Parents who feed their pageant child pure sugar and energy drinks ignore the future consequences of their child's health, and only focus on the situation at hand. Pixie Sticks and energy boosting drinks such as Mountain Dew or Red Bull, are commonly used "pageant drugs" to aid children to stay energetic and alert. These, among many others, indicate the clear deleterious effects engendered by the parents of beauty pageant children; this proverbial "dark side" of child beauty pageants cause critics

Beauty pageants or beauty contests hold the purpose of ranking girls based on their physical attributes, personality traits, and on talents or skills. On average, 2.5 million girls participate in beauty pageants each year. Of the 2.5 million, 250,000 of these contestants are children under the age of 16 (Demographic Partitions). While the parents may thoroughly enjoy the entertainment involved, most children do not feel the same way. Beauty pageants involving children have both positive and negative outcomes, but the majority are negative due to the high heels, overuse of hairspray, and outrageous amounts of makeup. It’s time for a change. Child-oriented beauty pageants should be banned due to the negative physiological deficits on young girls.

The hit TLC show Toddlers and Tiaras welcome viewers behind the scenes of the competitive world of child beauty pageants, showing viewers the glitz and glam of the pageant world. Typically, competitions demonstrate the importance of hard work and practice, teaching contestants valuable life lessons, however, beauty pageants teach contestants that the worth of a person is solely based on their appearance. Beauty pageants are based on physical appearance, customs, and fitness appearance instead of importance factors such as intelligence, achievements, and self-love. Children beauty pageants are extremely exploitive and detrimental to a child’s overall well being, damaging self-esteem and health.

Which causes overall stress, insulting outfits for young children and giving them the wrong idea that you have to be perfect. With wigs, to nails to fake eyelashes. Katlin also talks about how her crazed mother made her go on a diet as a child! “She policed what I ate and imposed severely restrictive diets,”katlin stated. Promoting eating disorders at that age you critically need to nutrients in order to grow properly. Tricking parents into helping there kid win a trophy or tiara or ribbon, these pageants costs so much money they are just in for trouble overall. Lurking for someone's wallet and cash, You'll pay for makeup, dressing reservations you're even going to have to pay to enter. Not even knowing if your child will win or not. As a result there really is no benefit besides becoming broke. “Being judged only on appearance teaches them that the idea of self worth is only based on how they look.”(Michelle Healy, USA today)This quote states that it’s giving them the wrong vibes and pageants are just bad role models all in

In America Over 250,000 children are entered into a beauty pageant annually and out of that number over 50% of those children wind up having issues in their teenage and adult years, 73% of parents who have kids in beauty pageants spend more money on the pageant instead of their kids' education. [ Women’s News 2016 ] Is this a serious issue? Yes, Child beauty pageants became part of the American society in the 1960’s. They were originally for teenagers 13-17 years old. [Kelly Kammer 2016] However child beauty pageants have become more and more popular and now children as little as toddlers participate in these pageants. Children who are entered in beauty pageants have a negative future ahead of them. Beauty pageants have created unrealistic expectations for young girls because these stereotypes contribute to eating disorder, depression , and low self esteem.

They say that beauty comes from within but if this is true why do parents parade their young children around and make their five-year-olds dress, look, and act like they are 18 years old. Child beauty pageants are very upsetting. “It aggravates the average viewer because how can a parent put their child through that emotional roller coaster and get upset when they do not win; make up excuses on why their child did not win because heaven forbid their child has a flaw. Child beauty pageants are upsetting to the child also because if they do not win it is like the end

Did you know children in beauty pageants take up to 10 pixie sticks as a pre-pageant boost and parents spend thousands of dollars on dresses and makeup for their children to compete? I think beauty pageants are wrong and thousands of dollars are spent just so the child can win something they may not have even signed up to do. Beauty pageants are a time for children to be dressed up in expensive dresses and put onto a stage. Parents enter these children, and because lots of them are so young, that the children can't say no and not do it compared to older children who can have a choice. Young children shouldn't be allowed to enter beauty pageants because they can cause harmful effects on the children which will harm their future.

For these young children, all the risks they go through can lead to harmful health issues that can become long term. Days before the competition the contestants are fed tapeworms so that they can obtain the perfect size which in their eyes is skinny. To maintain this size these girls are starved so they don’t gain weight prior to the competition. In addition, on competition day they are given sugary drinks and snacks so that they can have tons of enthusiasm for the day.

Beauty pageants also exploit children by causing problems to the psychological development of a child such as abnormal childhood or even family rift. As every child wants compliment, praise, and encouragement

Have you ever watched beauty pageants like the tv show Toddlers and Tiaras, and think the parents are absurd for pushing their daughters too hard for a sparkling plastic tiara? Maybe you have been to a live beauty-pageant, or specifically, support or despise them. Well, most people particularly do not like beauty-pageants as the toddlers' mothers have them on strict diets, make them wear extensive makeup, shave their legs, and get spray tans. But to the people within this culture, beauty-pageants are valuable and remains a tradition in society as they symbolize beauty within, but the majority of society thinks otherwise.

The TLC Show, “Toddlers and Tiaras,” is not an accurate representation of all that goes into preparing children for pageants. The show dramatizes the mostly the negative side of childhood beauty pageants. It depicts competitors that want to win strictly based on appearance. Despite the bad reputation that beauty pageants have, they equip young men and women with skills and opportunities such as chances to win scholarships, improving self-confidence and promoting social skills.

Beauty pageants and their management distort women’s minds from a young age to dedicate their lives to fit a stereotype of physical beauty and femininity. The standards set by the contests, which are based on the sexualizing of the participants, enforce a mindset that increases dieting, eating disorders, and lowers their self-esteem causing them to feel insecure and ugly. This unachievable standard of beauty leads to both women participating in pageants and those watching, feeling constant stress, paranoia, and anxiety, thinking or worrying about what they eat, the weight