Do Beauty Pageants Do More Harm Than Good For Children?

Do Beauty Pageants Do More Harm Than Good For Children?

The lights are all on you, the make-up, the hair, and the extravagant dresses. Your blood pumps with adrenaline; you feel nervous, yet excited. All eyes are on you; the pretty girl strutting across the stage in ostentatious costumes that flicker once caught in the light. Many people have witnessed a beauty pageant whether it is one on television or stage. Not many are in denial of the lovability of the younger aged children executing their talents in front of crowds. Beauty pageants have been around since the 1920’s setting a trend in the American society, but the history of beauty pageants began in Troy and Ancient China, where the contestants consisted of sculptors, actors, poets, philosophers and public speakers etc. (Children and Beauty Pageants) Beauty Pageants consist of many age groups ranging from newborns to about twenty years of age. Girls between the ages of three to thirteen should not participate in beauty pageants.

In many cases, such children grow up into disturbed adults who cannot adjust with the normalcy of the life around. These children also crave to be the center of hold, and when they do not get the desired attention, they start developing signs of worthlessness, depression and loneliness. In many of the cases, it takes on severe forms leading to suicide and personality disorders.

Such children may also not be able to form strong bonds of relationship and this may lead to broken families and friendships. In some of the cases, such children develop eating disorders. This not only takes their primal innocence away but also makes them likely to develop several mental and emotional imbalances in the life to come. The glitter and sheen of the glamorous ...

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...o that it becomes a piece of art. Children are a creation of the almighty that are very delicate and they are said to have divine powers, so no one has the right to destroy that by distracting the little brains towards the world of fashion, glamour and beauty pageants.

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9 March 2011

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http://www.minorcon.org/pageants.html

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