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    Emotional, physical, and mental healthiness is crucially imperative to an individual, especially a young individual so that he or she can develop properly while transitioning into adulthood. Unfortunately, many child beauty pageant participants are pressured to look their best at multiple competitions, and particularly girls who have started at a very early age fall into a routine of being lectured about their looks. So with all the pressure on little girls to look perfect…

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    Paulina Parzygnat Prof. Schering Com-102 April 6th 2015 Child Beauty Pageants In today’s society the expectations of appearance are inclining at an incredibly rapid speed. Everyone has a different view of beauty, but people still feel the need and the stress of not fitting into that perfect beauty image that is brought down upon them. To try to feel beautiful people feel that they need to change the way they look and alter their beauty entirely with different tools designed to transform ones…

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    Another aspect that affects the reputation of pageants is the toll that such an obsession of body image and thinness has on viewers. As we look around, it is evident that not all connections of young men and women’s problems with their self-confidence and self-love in their own skin lead to pageants. Celebrities have proved to be thinner, which negatively affects all those who look up to said celebrities and want to be just like them. However, with recent campaigns and public attention, more and…

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    Child beauty pageants are a repulsive affair, and not a practice that should be continued. I believe they are severely damaging to the children involved. Pageants cause these kids to have a skewed perception of what beauty is, and can encourage parents who are struggling financially to use their offspring by entering them into these competitions. Chiefly, pageants can prove remarkably damaging to the participant’s self-esteem. Being exposed to the beauty standards set by these competitions at…

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    Children beauty pageants have been a big issue for a while. There are some people who will fight to keep beauty pageants. They think it’s good for the young girls and will help them later on in life. There are those who think it’s wrong to showcase children as if they were dolls. For me, I feel like there should be some kind of middle ground to settle in. Every year there are about 5,000 shows and 250,000 children that participate in those shows. Those participants are all between the ages of 2…

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    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…

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    The U.S.A is home to some of the most prestigious and most renowned beauty pageants in the world, such as Miss America. These events usually have no negative connotation associated with them, but their smaller counterparts have been getting a lot of heat recently. The ten pounds of makeup and fake eyelashes on a 8 year old isn’t the average person’s idea of a childhood. Child beauty pageants are negative to their contestants in many ways. They affect their life in later years, such as causing…

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    Child beauty pageants Children beauty pageants are one of the worst exploitation. Due to this, young children are maturing at a young age and thinking that physical appearances are more important than their inner self. Therefore, children beauty pageants should be eliminated. Children under the age of 10 should not be allowed to participate in beauty pageants because young children are spending time focusing on their appearances. About 250,000 children participate in beauty pageants each year…

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    about the banning of children beauty pageants? If you haven’t, this paper gives examples and reasonings why I think children beauty pageants should be banned. The reasons I think children beauty pageants should be banned are they are overly focused on appearance, parents become too involved, they can be dangerous, they affect the children’s aging, they sexualize children, and the pageants are expecting children to be attractive. I believe that children beauty pageants are too focused on the…

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    Child Beauty Pageants: Mental Poison for Children Heavy makeup, long curly hair, high-heeled shoes, dangling earrings, bikini top, and sexiness. What I was describing is not a film actress or a woman model, but rather an 8-year-old child beauty pageant contestant. Normally, none of these words should be associated with a child; however, multiple girls as I describe can be seen on child beauty pageants like Toddlers & Tiaras, Little Miss Perfect, and Painted Babies. Originating from the U.S.,…

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