A child beauty pageant is a beauty contest featuring contestants younger than 13 years of age. Divisions include talent‚ interview‚ sportswear‚ casual wear‚ swim wear‚ western wear‚ out-fit of choice‚ decade wear‚ and evening wear‚ typically wearing makeup as well as elaborate hairstyles. The debate about child beauty pageants in Australia is getting particularly ugly. Ever since the US group ‘Universal Royalty Beauty Pageant’ announced plans to hold its first Australian competition in Melbourne
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competing in beauty pageants adversely affect a child’s development? Pageants are a way of forcing a child to act as an adult – smearing make-up on a child and making her dress up like an adults to “supposedly” build confidence but instead giving that child the wrong message. They are basically beginning to lose their childhood. Overtime‚ children get very competitive and at that point in their minds all they think about is winning‚ not about the true purpose of a beauty pageant. Beauty pageants have a
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Spark of a Glitzy Circus Commonly‚ children beauty pageants are judged by the following: modeling sportswear and evening wear‚ how well they dance‚ and how much talent they possess. The children are judged by their looks‚ how well they perform‚ and how confident they appear. Mother’s prepare their children for long weekends of make-up‚ hairspray‚ and gowns‚ but what about the children? How will this prepare them for life? Why would any parent want their child to grow up any faster than they already do
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learned about the world of child beauty pageants when a 5 ½ year old beauty queen named JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered the day after Christmas in 1996. The child was murdered in her Boulder Colorado home and found in the basement with her hands tied‚ her mouth duct taped‚ and her throat garroted. Her death was ruled strangulation but there was also blunt force trauma to her head as well as vaginal injury (Auge‚ Karen‚ par. 13-15). Her death brought these pageants into our minds‚ conversations
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ty pageantsChild Beauty Pageants And why the rules should be much stricter Overall stand: Child beauty pageants should be deemed illegal because: * They objectify the children in an attempt to achieve an unclear vision of beauty. * The parents more often than not force their ideals on the children in the pageants‚ and go to ridiculous lengths to win. * The children are being manipulated and turned into icons not appropriate for their age. * To have children compete for a title
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Children Pageants Should Be Banned “This can lead to eating disorders and poor self-esteem” (Overington‚ 13). Children in beauty pageants get judged on their outward appearance and get received or rejected. Children shouldn’t be allowed to compete in beauty pageants. Not only are pageants expensive‚ they make the children grow up too fast and the participants have poor self-esteem at the end of the day. Children beauty pageants are expensive. Participation in a single competition can top $3‚000 (Laura
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Child beauty pageants should be banned Child beauty pageants should be banned because they cause children‚ especially little girls‚ to use artificial means to boost their self esteem. People were not born with makeup‚ spray tans‚ big hair‚ and false teeth. Beauty pageants set false rules on beauty. They make children believe they have to wear make-up‚ jewelry‚ wigs‚ fake nails‚ and other acessories to be beautiful. Every child is beautiful in their own way. Their beauty is natural and they shouldn’t
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When people think of pageants they automatically assume the stereotype that pageants are contests for tall‚ thin‚ young‚ barbie girls‚ however‚ this is not true. The first Miss America pageant started on December 7‚ 1921‚ when a hotel owner in New Jersey wanted to extend the summer tourist season and 15-year-old Margaret Gorman was crowned the first Miss America. Since this day‚ pageants have developed and evolved from once creating the perfect homemaker to empowering women. Many bans and restrictions
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Reflection: Beauty Pageant This movie made me very upset. I found myself‚ while watching it‚ lashing back at the screen with comments of disgust. The whole beauty pageant thing is something that I do not understand that much about. To me it seems ridiculous; placing girls in a competition over their looks‚ which at times their looks are fake with the outfits‚ the make up‚ the fake tans‚ and the fake teeth. It does not represent what a young child really looks like. I am also upset with the
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and confidence through competing and meeting other girls. Beauty pageants are made to cultivate a woman`s talents‚ giving her effective communication skills‚ leading her into the world prepared and ready. However‚ like the name‚ it is a contest that mainly focuses on physical appearance and even with a good personality; a physical flaw would be your downfall. Young women all over the world are striving to lose enough weight to win a beauty pageant – and this ‘thin’ ideal has spread to other parts
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