Debate around children beauty pageants

by Kat Stovall

When my four year old daughter asked to participate in a pageant at our local fair. I had huge trepidations. I have never believed that beauty pageant of any sort were a healthy activity for children, young women, or adult...read more

by Carolyn Lanier

The word " Beauty " in relationship with any pageant turns me away. From baby pageants to the Miss America pageant, no part of any pageants should be based on beauty. That's sending the wrong message, real beauty comes fro...read more

by Gianna Ferazzi

Sexed-up little girls sashaying down a cat-walk or stage in full makeup with teased hair and glitzy dresses isn't amusing or cute. In fact, it borders on child abuse. It doesn't matter whether or not we are "stage moms." ...read more

by patty smithe

Just about two years ago my niece came to me with the news that she was going to be in a beauty pageant. She was twelve years old. She had gone to the mall, and seen a poster that they were going to pick "semi finalists" f...read more

by Jessie T

Last week I was watching a children's beauty pageant on T.V. The little girls seemed to be having a lot of fun dressing up and putting on makeup of course. From what I've seen most little girls enjoy "playing dress up". ...read more

by Jaime Porter

Thousands of dollars can be spent just for one child in one pageant. It costs a few hundred dollars to enter your child in the pageant depending on what type of pageant it is. There are a few types of pageants, City, Stat...read more

by Scott Heritage

Child beauty pageants and the so called parents who encourage their children to take part in them are wrong, and can only harm a child's development and serve to warp their view of the world. The young girls in these page...read more

by Deepa Shyam Prasad

Beauty of mind is the beauty that lasts. Our children, the citizens of tomorrow's world need compassion, self-esteem , tolerance some of the characteristics that beautifies our mind. Beauty pageants stress a lot on phy...read more

by Terece Daley

Now come on! I know, I know children look ssooo cute dressed up like they are little grown adults parading around the living room in mommies shoes, Or going into your hat box and trying on your most prised hat and glove se...read more

by Shenni Bubb

Child beauty pageants should not be allowed. All children are supposedly beautiful in their parents eyes, so why the need for the adults to convince themselves? Perhaps driven by the trinkets that accompany a possible win...read more

by Stacey Thomas

Maybe somebody else can convince me otherwise, but in my opinion I think that Beauty Pageants for children are just wrong. You can say they are just a bit of fun, but i've seen these things on television. The children lo...read more