Child Beauty Pageants: Robbing Little Girls’ Innocence There are over 5‚000 child beauty pageants held annually across the United States with girls as young as two-years-old competing in them. Little girls strut across the stage with make-up painted on their tanned faces‚ hair teased into big and luscious curls‚ fake teeth‚ and a raunchy dance to complement it. There’s no doubt that the very young girls do not resemble their age when they are on stage and performing; they’re transformed into “sultry
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Beauty Pageants and Our Children Alost 3 million children‚ most of them girls‚ from the ages of 6 months and 17 years compete in beauty pageants annually in America. Competition can be local and national and they compete in categories such as swimwear‚ talent‚ costume of your choice‚ and eveningwear. This is an industry where mothers give her daughter energy drinks for a boost before pageants‚ 3-year-olds don fake fingernails‚ and parents regularly spend five thousand dollars on a child’s pageant
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Child Beauty Pageants While beauty pageants started in the 1920’s‚ children’s beauty pageants began in the 1960’s. This is when the predicament all began. Equally important is the definition of child abuse. It is defined as the exploitation of a child. Children in beauty pageants are exploited at a very over powering rate. Since there is so much exploitation‚ it should be considered child abuse. Due to parental involvement‚ children participate in pageants that damage them physically‚ mentally
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Stop the Abuse It is no surprise that every girl‚ young and old‚ wants to be or at least feel beautiful. But it is a surprise when self-destruction and low self-esteem defines the word beauty. We ask ourselves‚ why is this happening? Why are there so many headlines in newspapers about young girls committing suicide? It’s time to stop asking why and start asking what the problem is. What is the cause of the issue and is there any way to solve it? There can be many roots to the problem but the one
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These things are becoming more and more popular in beauty pageants as early as six months old. Some people say child beauty pageants are absolutely great but also many sources that believe as though children are being robbed of their childhood. Beauty pageants are very exploitive because they promote a materialistic belief on young girls‚ damage self-esteem and encourage young girls to act like “divas”. How wrong is it to teach young girls to judge a book by its cover? The materialistic
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Beauty Pageants: From the Title of Mini Supreme to America’s Next Top Model English 106 Cassie Robinson 3 Otober 2012 Abstract Beauty pageants have changed drastically in the past fifty years. Beauty pageants used to be all adult females who dressed in their Sunday best and walked on the catwalk at the county fair. Now‚ little children are decked out in glitzy outfits‚ have wigs that make their hair twice as long‚ and have teeth to make it seem like their baby teeth haven’t fallen out yet
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cruel and harmful world of child beauty pageants. Little girls as young as 6 weeks are being paraded around by their pushy parents and made to look like living dolls. Is this a good environment for a young child to grow up in? These young girls are expected and forced to act like young adults; they spend hours on end rehearsing walks and routines. They are not given the freedom to be a child‚ make mistakes or have imperfections. It is devastating to see so many young girls‚ unable to be themselves
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Commodification of Children[edit] Critics of child beauty pageants say the pageants promote children as products. Some describe it as a deal. Parents spend money on clothing‚ hair‚ makeup‚ and accessories in return for a cash prize.[14] Law[edit] Besides the laws that regulate child education‚ pageants are a relatively ungoverned program. Child contestants are not considered "working"‚ so pageants are exempt from federal child labor laws. Pageants also have different rules‚ so it becomes hard
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Jesus Cifuentes Professor Ashkiani English 115 June 19‚ 2013 CHILD BEAUTY PAGEANTS Children are masters of fantastical ideas‚ and these pageants can be a plentiful playground for their fantasies to come to life. But these fantasies can come at a high price and self worth. Child beauty pageants are contests that feature children less than eighteen years of age. These competitions are categorized in talent‚ interview‚ casual wear etcetera; contestants wear makeup and elaborate complex hairstyles
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every young girls dream‚ unfortunately‚ for many‚ this dream often turns into a nightmare. For nearly fifty years children have been subjected to the world of beauty pageants where they have been forced to behave as young adults rather than the five year olds that they actually are. Young children spend numerous hours every day practicing speeches and model walks for upcoming pageants rather than focusing on schoolwork and playing with friends. With an emphasis placed on appearance in beauty contests
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