The Sexualization Of Children's Beauty Pageants

With parents putting their children in public with such inappropriate clothing can lead to the danger of a child’s life. The pageant industry doesn’t give out warning to the parents of putting their children in a risk condition that can target them. In Christine Tamer’s article claims that children’s beauty pageants are a form of child sexualization, “these sexualized images can serve to normalize abusive practices such as child abuse, child pornography, and child prostitution.” Tamer also claimed that because of pageants is media related, it can attract pedophiles and can result of a murder just like what had happened to a six year old pageant girl, JonBenet Ramsey, who won a half dozen of beauty crowns. Ramsey disappeared after Christmas

Parents claim that pageant is alike to a sport that teaches children how to be humble winners and a good sport when they lose. It enables them to learn from their mistakes, to improve and to do better. This is a false statement because “beauty is not a talent or skill that can be enhanced with practice, determination, or stamina” (Pull the Pin). Children are learned to impress the judges and judge them based on titling as “the most beautiful girl”, “the girl with the best personality”, “supreme queen”, and many more (Tydd). This will result of an entitled judgment that can make them feel insecure about themselves as when they get older. Lastly, children would learn discipline by allowing them to abide rules and easy for them to make friends, yet the claim is a ‘false’ friendship because the parents believe that in a competition, no friendships were formed but just a total gossip. The issues with these pageants are that these young girls are starting to compare themselves to other “prettier” girls, which can lead to a negative outcome in the

Age is one of the main problems in children beauty pageants. Increasing the minimum age to seven or eight gives them the opportunity to decide for themselves that would reduce the likelihood of being forced from their parents. Adding a dress code to the pageant policy would help a lot to protect young girls against harm and demeaning. Similarly of imposing rules on makeup linking to a more age-appropriate image, “they have to be natural, they’re not allowed make-up. It’s not like that. It’s pure natural beauty” (Rogan). To see a children beauty pageants be a natural beauty pageants would see the real beauty, not all because of all the fake material they hold, but because of their natural talents. A change in the judging criteria of physical categories to more non-physical traits such as kindness, intelligence, and charity would greatly prevent children from insecurities and disorder development. A Make-A-Wish UK community fundraising manager, Lynn Taylor, states “the children do great work fundraising for Make-A-Wish and the money that is raised will help grant more wishes to children and young people fighting life-threatening conditions” (Rogan). Receiving an award of every participant would help children feel good about