I find it cruel for these parents to want their children to have fake teeth (flippers), fake tans, fake nails, and fake hair with highlights. I see the competitions as a way for mothers to compete against one another but also to live their life through their children. Some of the parents look like they can barely make ends meet financially each month. At first I thought the parents were making sacrifices in order to get future college scholarships, but soon found this was not the case. The winners get a meager $500 to $1000.
It has been proven that 51% of 9 and 10 year old girls feel better about themselves when they are on a diet. This is because the average child looks up to these other kids and supermodels wanting to look like they do on the runway. Time Magazine reported that 80% of all children have been on a diet by the time they are in grade 4. This is setting bad body image for young girls which are shown in the statistics saying there has been a 270% increase in the number of girls hospitalized for eating disorders in the past 10 years. Why should children be encouraged to diet at such young ages?
Many legal American women do not receive the adequate prenatal healthcare that illegal immigrant women receive. Children of illegal Latino immigrants cost the state education systems even more money every year. While many of these children speak both Spanish and English, they still need English as a Second Language (ESL) classes to keep up with their American counterparts. In 2007, ESL classes cost the state of Virginia over $12 million in extra teacher’s salaries and extra classroom spaces ( Birthright). These monies could have been spent on the education of children of legal American parents.
Spanking Children Many parents think that spanking is a good way to correct the bad attitudes and bad things that children usually do. Parents usually spank children for these reasons, but parents should know that children can get some different [additional] problems because of spanking. Children can get depression, bad relationships and mental problems. Parents are asking themselves if spanking children is a good way to discipline children or not? Therefore, according to the latest studies of some organizations such as children protection, spanking can create physiological problems such as depression in a child.
As Peggy Orenstein’s three year-old daughter entered the “princess phase,” Orenstein became increasingly frustrated. As a feminist, she worried about the negative effects the princess obsession would have on her daughter and other young girls in their futures. In “Cinderella and Princess Culture,” Orenstein sets out to discuss these effects. She discovers that although it seems as if this princess craze is creating negative gender stereotypes at an early age, maybe princess enthusiasts are really benefitting from their obsession. Orenstein has gotten accustomed to adults assuming her daughter likes pink and princesses.
How is she supportive when she tells her child this one sided statement of winning to whatever means possible. Adding to this atrocity; she outfitted her daughter, then 4 years old, with faux breasts and padding for her derriere to more convincingly portray the curvaceous Dolly Parton. When I read about it, this display of pageantry is immoral and down-right disgusting. I’m thinking this was her way of reasoning “do what it takes.” Most stage mother’s claim that their child wanted to enter the
Many children turn to anorexia to lose weight. This can scar a child for life. This condition brings on feelings of guilt, lack of self worth, and loss if they do not get the results that the media promises comes with the new body. Parents have the ability to see the changes in their children. The mitigation should immediately to confer with a doctor.
The positive effect is that Adeline was born and would probably not exist at all if this tradition is not around, since her parents would have stopped at three or four children. However, it also has the negative impact. In a large family, the youngest one is usually bullied; this is also part of tradition. The fact that Adeline is both a girl and the youngest children in her family (excluding Niang’s children because they are constantly protected by Niang herself) contributes to her being hated by her siblings. Though being the smallest child is part of the reason of why Adeline is loathed, it is overshadowed by a bigger
Indeed today, beauty pageants for young girls are becoming more and more popular. However, I believe that young girls should not be allowed to participate and join beauty pageants because it affects their overall well-being in a negative way. First, these child beauty pageants damage the young girls psychologically and physically. A lot of child advocates and psychologists have already spoken out against child beauty pageants and claim that these pageants are not really helpful for healthy child development. According to William Pinsof, a clinical psychologist and president of the Family Institute at Northwestern University, “Being a little Barbie doll says your body has to be a certain way and your hair has to be a certain way.
Child beauty contests should be banned Every girl should be a beauty queen in the eyes of society ,not necessarily by entering and winning a title in a beauty contest .Some people including me oppose the idea of a young child involves with this kind of contests .Consequently, Child beauty contests should be banned because of the psychological impact on the young child and the physical ailments that occurs due to those contests .The principle of child beauty contests is to Transform a little girl into a beauty queen just to win , this kind of transformation put pressure on the young contestants .A kind of pressure that makes them question themselves if they are pretty enough to compete . Furthermore , the judges always seeks the perfect appearance child in order to win and that makes the contestants want to become the perfect model of beauty which causes a delusional idea in their mind about beauty perfection is associated with the Barbie doll . Not every contestant has the features of a Barbie doll so the contestants tries to be the perfect exemplar of a beauty queen by copying Barbie doll features , and that’s put the child in the position of questioning herself again weather she’s perfect or not . As a result , in case of her losing the contests ,she will despise herself for not being more perfect and in some cases that leads to depression for not being the beauty queen of the contest.Historically eating disorders have been caused due to emotional problems and that’s the case of beauty contestants who put so much effort to get the perfect body shape as they claim .Despite the fact that a child should always eat healthy food , most of the children in beauty contests forces themselves into a strict diet to become as I said before “ The perfect Barbie doll “ in every single detail and that causes sometimes a very serious diseases such as : Anorexia and bulimia