Child Beauty Pageants should be banned because it gives the children who participate in them problems in their older years. Many experts agree they participation in activities that focus on physical appearance at an early age can influence self-esteem, body image, and self-worth (Cartwright, 1). This is not a good thing because children should not have body issues. Instead they should be playing outside. Child beauty pageants also creates children with the “princess syndrome” (Cartwright. 2). Princess Syndrome is when someone has unrealistic standards of life, like a princess. This is common in children who participate in beauty pageants because they want to look perfect, but nothing is perfect to them. Pageants are not good because
