What do you think about child beauty pageants???

Answer 1

i was in one as a kid and it was a blast! i really liked it!...however we (me and my sister) did it because we wanted to and bugged our parents to let us be in it. i don't think its right to force your kids into anything.

Answer 2

I have already posted answers to similar questions so here it goes again:

Pageants are actually fun and you win money. Anyone who thinks it is for perverts are actually perverts themselves because all they are thinking about is $ex so obviously it is saying something. Pageants are not fake and useless. They are about poise and confidence, stage presence, knowledge of current events, speaking skills, and many other things. Most pageants are looking for a girl who can represent them, and the judges do not want some druggie or someone stupid to be representing them. Most of the scoring is based on interview and how you present yourself not about looks. Some pageants are rigged because the directors do not like a certain contestant but you do not get to see the judges before an interview. The swimsuit portion is to show that you are healthy not OBESE. How many of you can speak in front of national television or even a crowd and not look like an idiot? These girls practice hard so it obviously is not fake. It is not useless because you win scholarships. The crown, trophy, and banner are just the icing on the cake. All parents steer there kids into doing something. Some put them in basketball, football, or soccer, maybe even karate or music lessons. People who become doctors or a lawyer were somehow pushed into that direction. Some parents put their kids in pageants just because they want to see if they like it. Some kids actually do like doing pageants and pageants actually help kids. They become better speakers at in early age and have better poise and self-confidence. When they lose, they learn how to deal with defeat. I can understand why people may think that pageants make little kids miserable or superior. That is when parents need to teach there kids right from wrong and the kids learn that the real world is big competitions with job interviews and promotions and things like that and they will be ready because they have compete all their life. Professional football players would not have become professional football players without the push of their parents in their early childhood. Doctors would not have been doctors if their parents did not force them to study. Everyone, at some point in his or her life, did some kind of activity. Pageants just happen to be one for these kids. People complain about why parents force them into things, but these people do the same to their kids as well. How do you know that the kids are not going to like something if they do not introduce it to them? Parents introduce things to their kids that fit their personality. How do people become doctors? Did they just up and decide to become one or did they do things in their childhood that steered them in that direction? Parents try to control what their kids do because that is their job. Parents have to teach them lessons on how to survive in the real world because they already lived through it. Not all parents are about living their life through their kids; they just want to show them what their options are.

Answer 3

I think they are absolutely horrible! Having little girls dress up and put on makeup, why make them grow up so fast?. Actually some friends and I were discussing this while watching "Little Miss Sunshine". I think if they are going to do a child pagent. No makeup, or bronzing should not be allowed. NO swimsuit competition.

It should be all natural if it's going to be done at all. For anyone who's seen "little Miss Sunshine" It should be a bunch of little kids like the main character little girl.

Answer 4

I think they are getting to be a form of child abuse. Have you ever seen the documentaries on the moms and dads who do this? I wouldn't wish them on the worse child ever born. Girls are dolled up to look like mini tramps. An above answer was right about his comment on pedophiles. The parents like to say that it is the child's idea, but I doubt a 1 year old says "Mommy, please dress me up twenty years older then I really am so you can live out some strange desire."

Answer 5

I think it is very very silly to have child beauty pegeants as they are just children leave them alone in their world. DOnt distrub it by measuring how pretty/beautiful/handsome they are. Ever child is pretty and a unique creation and i dont think they need to be measured by their beauty only.
Somemore this kind of pegeants can some of them over confident fools and leave others with inferiority complex.
So I in my opinion::::::I AM HIGHLY AGAINST IT

Answer 6

I think they are rong really. I am kind of sickened when I see them....all these little girls wearing pounds of make up and looking like little tramps. i wonder how many -pedophiles watch it and it makes me ill. The kids cant play it seems they are stuck instead into a rigid role that they are going to have to play into for the rest of their life..and it is one role of being the prettiest and also being everything a man wants them to be. Then if they lose they probably get a major complex that they are not good enough. i think they are ridiculous and a mothers way of batteling her own insecurities so they subject their poor kids to making that up for them.

Answer 7

Child beauty pagents have both its benefits and downfalls.

Every time a child enters a pagent, it helps to increase his/her confidence towards public. It also enables the child to mature faster in terms of social networks, entertainment, and fashion. He/She can also learn about fun competition.

However, such events can sometimes pressurised the child due to the expectations of their parents. All parents want their chirl to win...however sometimes, they can be too obsess with the desire to win that the child might forget about the most important thing -- "having fun". Secondly, it's pretty bad if the child mature too fast, knowing about the "real world" of competition, beauty, entertainment and fashion.

So, it's all depends on the parents and their expectations towards their child in such competitions.

Answer 8

well since everyone complains about the wrong images we are sending youth today, seems that would be the first place to look. Then maybe you will not get so many eating disorders and depressed teens and eventually adult women. Who are always asking you am i over weight or do i look fat, every time you turn around.

Answer 9

Well,its nice if the girls are there to show their talents and wit...two major things 2 be considered in choosing the winner.beauty from the outside is not always important...And please.lets not make them look like 18 yr olds by putting a lot of make up on their innocent faces.

Answer 10

A child is not supposed to be sexual in the way that adults are. Thus, it's just glorified softcore pedophilia porn and is pathetic. It's just parents trying to live out their own failed dreams through their children. Children have no desire to be sexy or beautiful. They want to play in mud and eat ice cream. Forcing them to do crap like that is wrong.

Answer 11

I think it sends a bad message to kids, that their looks are everything; that if they're pretty enough, then they 'win'. But in life, there is always someone prettier. How are they going to deal with that in a healthy way when they're older?