Persuasive Essay On Child Beauty Pageants

Beauty pageants have been around for a long time, making people believe that nothing could go wrong in such events. Nevertheless, when I consider women who glide across the stage, I recall skinny women, in specific, who appear to have unrealistic features such as: perfect teeth, skin, and bodies, putting pressure as only women who appear that way are in magazines, television, and movies. Subsequently, this begins when young women participate in beauty pageants. [ Dante Ultius] Society today thinks that entering young children in beauty pageants can help self esteem. Society believes it will make them feel beautiful, perfect, socially involved, discipline, self confidence, and so on. Well it turns out thatś the exact opposite of what they think. Putting children in beauty pageants at a young age can cause health issues like depression, low self of esteem, anxiety, eating disorder, and also the absense of a normal childhood. Research shows that over the past 10 years, there has been a 270% increase in the number of girls being hospitalized for eating disorders, some of these girls are as young as 7 years old [Kelly Kammer]. Competitions can display adult body dissatisfaction in their later years, and that it is also possible for them to suffer from various eating disorders [Psychologist Martina Cartwright].

The opinion that beauty pageants are all fun and games is a very dangerous one to have. The lives of participating children are never the same because of the long term emotional and psychological effects that are brought on by early

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.

Children should not be allowed to participate in beauty pageants at such a young age. Preparing children for beauty pageants is physically harmful. Beauty pageants are also psychologically harmful to children. Children raised in beauty pageants lead them to believe that life is superficial. Competing in pageants can potentially lead to three major mental health problems— eating

The most important factor of these pageants, beauty. When competing in and watching beauty pageants at a young age, girls believe that their outer beauty matters most. Girls who watch Toddlers and Tiaras focus on the contestant’s beauty, causing them to do the same with themselves. The skinny girls hidden under piles of makeup on tv make both the contestant and viewer think that this is normal. Before a pageant, a mom injected botox in her 8 year old daughter’s face to take away her wrinkles. Another mom fed her daughter tapeworms to make her skinnier. Soon after, the girl was in the hospital. In no situation should little girls have to go through this just to improve their outer appearance. If this is what it takes for a girl to win, then we are better off without these pageants.

Beauty Pageants over sexualizes little girls at a young age. As it seen in “Toddlers and Tiaras” a show by TLC show, little girls are being sexualized at a young age, by introducing them to hair extensions, make up, flippers (fake teeth), sexualized dresses. According to Paul Peterson, president and founder of A Minor Consideration, beauty pageants are “feeding the sex industry (Agadoni).” Girls are not physically ready to wear make up or hair extensions, and all of that just hides the natural beauty of a child making them more self conscious about themselves at such a young age. Little girls are going to think of themselves as not beautiful because they hide their real selves behind a ton of make up.

When I hear the word toddler I think of little girls walking around in mommy’s shoes, and miss matched clothing (because she’s getting to the age where she likes to dress herself.) And of course a cute smile that’s missing a few teeth. The word glitz, glamour and sashes don’t come to mind. Nor does the image of a little girl who’s fake from head to toe. Wearing wigs, flippers (fake teeth), inappropriate /reveling attire and fake tans. I don’t think of little girls dancing around a stage in front of hundreds of people getting judged on their “beauty.” Well, that is exactly what children’s pageants consist of. Pageants exploit a child for their outer beauty, their talents and over all perfection or as pageant judges would call it having” the

In “Beauty Pageants Draw Children and Criticism” by Kristen Schultz and Pleshette Murphy, it discusses how girls from infants to 16 years old enter beauty pageants and those who support beauty pageants would say this is a great way for girls to play like cinderella but they don’t realize

Most pageant girls practice 3 to 4 hours a day plus spend endless hours at the competition itself. All of this time has to come from somewhere, and often it interrupts their education. Their grades will begin to go down. These little kids won't get a good learning experience and may not be able to create those lasting school relationships that we all enjoy. So not only are they now focused on their looks, they are also not focused on their future. Some people say that it won't lower their grades because they can still study when they aren't practicing. But practice takes up a lot of time and there is no replacing a great classroom teacher and teamwork with your peers. They stop focusing on school because they are told beauty is better than brains.

These contest are superficial and represent woman poorly. There is nothing childlike about beauty pageants; they have robbed children of their childhood since the 1960s. Gone are the days when innocence and missing teeth were considered cute. Children learn morals and values through their childhood and do we really want them basing life off beauty pageants. There is more to life than being beautiful.

Although they seem undisputed and lighthearted, child beauty pageants are one of the most contentious and criticized of all children's activities. While all other types of beauty contests are often viewed as distasteful, child beauty contests yield an even greater unfavorable response. Many individuals go as far as critiquing the pageants as being child abuse. Some say the beauty pageants sexualize the young girls and place unnecessary expectations of beauty at too early of an age. Contributors argue that the pageants help to build confidence and to teach the girls traits such as having poise and self control. Child beauty pageants are contests constructed to reward adolescence for their looks and charisma. There are many different components to every pageant. The children are often judged on how well they do during their interview, they're judge on their appearance, then on their talents. The events are set up by age groups, such as 0 to 6, so the criticism is fair. Each age division winner usually wins a crown or a trophy.

Most child beauty pageant supporters think that these pageants actually promote a girl’s developing self confidence and communication skills by pushing them outside of their comfort zones, but this is not the case and is not true at all. These child beauty pageants should be banned because they promote an unattainable standard of beauty

It’s not that they don’t know better but they are easily persuaded into opportunities. Being sexualized is one of the main problems of child beauty contest. A vast majority of children would never be involved in such contest if parents new how devastating it could really be (Helling). Let’s not forget the cognitive and emotional problems. It teaches them more of how they are on the outside than the character of themselves. By that meaning girls at a young age should never go through these types of problems instead they should be worrying about having tea parties or eating however much they want. Emotional disorders like eating problems, anorexia, and the depression caused by one little thing. The self confidence is caused by the contest. Leading up to the emotions of a child is not a good thing because of all he psychological mind

Can you believe that four-year-old get up on stage practically naked? Here's why child beauty pageants are very popular. These children are going up on stage to get judged by people in beauty,talent,and dresses is part of the contest.Teaching children to judge people by the way they look is not acceptable.Expensive make-up, travel dresses,entry fees and coaches are part of it.using children for money is also not

Beauty pageants are awful and cruel. Children's parents give children fake spray tans, making them cry from the cold. They are made to wear artificial nails and put on wigs. It's almost like a game of dress up but the parents are the children and the dolls are the kids. Parents give their kids ten pixie sticks before their child goes on stage so they can have a boost of energy and look lively on the stage and not look like they're bored and don't want to be there. They have to wear flippers which hide any visible gaps between the children's teeth.