Cause And Effect Essay On Child Beauty Pageants

Little girls are meant to be just that, little girls. The foundation, canceler, eyelashes, fake nails and lipstick come in to play later on in their lives if they choose. In my experience, my mother didn’t force those things on me or even allow me to wear cosmetics until I was around thirteen and even then it was light makeup. Child beauty pageants were first made known in the 1960’s and each year where around three million children from ages six to sixteen compete for the number one spot. The pageant world as seen on A&E as well as the TLC show “Here comes honey boo boo”, which follows a child on her daily life and beauty pageants. This sheds light on the fact that these pageants have more to do with the parents then the children themselves, parents start their children in pageants at as young as eighteen months old. The …show more content…
For many of these girls it is believed that outer beauty is the only thing that is truly important thing in life. These pageants are damaging to the participants so much so that France and Russia are banning them. France is only banning them until a child is sixteen and can actually make the decision on their own to be in a pageant. The French believe that the pageants focus too much on outward appearances and not what is inside or even what the girls’ thoughts or ideas are. Based on an article, "A Beauty Pageant Ban”, in Scholastic News, India is banning all beauty pageants because "Nudity and obscenity cannot be parameters for determining beauty. Indian girls should try to emulate Mother Teresa, Chand Bibi, Maharani Laxmi Bai and Sita. No religion allows its daughters to expose their bodies to win competitions". Child pageants are so frowned upon that two of the most fashion forward countries have completely banned the competitions and it is very frowned