Persuasive Essay On Child Beauty Pageants

Beauty pageants teach girls to be confident and independent, they build confidence for those involved. The Miss America pageant has been nationally televised since 1954. It has paid for schooling for dozens of girls, but at the same time can be derogatory and degrading toward women. Women can go too far to win and live up to the standards of former beauty pageant winners and contestants. At times young girls feel they have to live up to standards of these women when in reality they do not. Child beauty pageants are unacceptable and parents should take high precaution when sending their young daughters into this war zone of a competition. All mothers want their daughters to be successful and beautiful, but there is a point where it

Little girls are little girls for a reason they are meant to act young and make mistakes, they should not be expected to act let alone look like adults. "Now market research studies have found nearly half of 6 to 9 year olds are already using lipstick or lip gloss (Hollandsworth).When you were 6 what did you worry about maybe it was getting the latest action figure, or the new Disney princess movie, 6 year olds should not be worried about if they have lipstick on their teeth .Walmart launched a makeup line just for girls 8-12. Abercrombie and Fitch marketed a padded push up bikini top for 8 year olds. It’s easy to slam pageants, but maybe that’s because no one wants to deal with the bigger picture which is the day to day sexualization of our daughters (Hollandsworth). We now live in a world where all of this is perfectly acceptable pageants have been a huge contributor into these issues and a fine line needs to be drawn for all to