How Does Child Beauty Pageants Affect Society

Child beauty pageants are a major problem in our world today. Not only do Child beauty pageants over sexualise girls at a young age they also create a bad depressing future for the child's life. I think that it is incorrect to think

Self esteem refers to the values that we put on ourselves as a person. Someone with low self esteem is a person who looks at all the negative things about themselves like the way they act and more importantly look. Today self esteem is a big concern for children and teenagers (particularly girls) over their growing up years. Low self esteem can be influenced by what people see, for example what other people look like or what they see people look like in magazines and on tv. This can influence how one acts and looks regarding themselves. The media is one of the biggest causes of low self esteem. The media uses images of over sexualised and “perfect” people in their ads, tv shows and especially in magazines. This gives people the wrong idea of how one should look and makes the person want to look more like the “perfect person” and have the best body shape. …show more content…
Today many children are formed into child beauty pageants especially by their parents. All of the children who participate in child beauty pageants have been forced into it by their parents. These parents are usually selfish and force their children into the world of parents for the parents benefit. Children at the age of one are starting to participate in pageants, this results in an over sexualised child that does not look like a young child. As children are growing up they need to be able to be free and explore and have a regular diet not be dressed up, covered in makeup and trying to look skinny and model