Keisha Dotson July 19, 2010 English “Should Children Beauty Pageants Be Consider Harmful” Most people when they think of a child beauty contest or pageant, they think of the glamour, big hair styles and the over the top make up jobs for the child in question. Really and truly the pressure of the pageant itself can lead to serious self esteem issues and other psychosomatic issues. Children beauty pageants should be consider a psychological health risk for young children and their childhood. The main reasoning behind child beauty pageants is that the parents say that they enter their child or children are to give an increase in confidence. But according to (Lalan Maliakal), she states that “the mothers pressurize their children to work their appearance to look like a Barbie doll.” Young Children forgo their improvement and childhood years for beauty pageants and pressure by their mothers to be the best, which for the most part is not good because the child’s virtuousness have been blemished and compress by false synthetic similes and counterfeit eyelashes and sophisticated appearance .
Child Beauty Pageants Is allowing your child to participate in pageants protecting and caring for your child in the best way possible or is it perverting the natural beauty found in every child to some impossible painted standard best adhered to only by drag queens? The old saying goes; beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In other words, someone or something that is considered attractive to one person may not necessarily appeal to another. If we lived in a perfect world, maybe everyone would follow the wise words of this old saying and admit that evaluating beauty is a biased practice. Beauty pageants are a needless aspect in society simply because they put a big emphasis on money, set unrealistic beauty standards for easily influenced young girls, and they encourage judging on appearance, rather than on a person's character.
All around the world parent’s are putting their children into beauty pageants. Some of these children can barely talk and just learned to walk. Entering a child into beauty pageant is morally unjust and objectionable. What these children are learning isn’t helping them as much as they are harming them. They’re learning that physical beauty is the primary judges of their character and not their brains.
The Exploitation of Little Girls Through Beauty Pageants Beauty pageants have been around since the early 1900’s, but within the last thirty years parents’ have been projecting their fantasies through their children and this is becoming a very serious problem. Children that participate in these pageants are being sexually exploited by their parents and the long term emotional damage can be irreverseable. Recently on the learning channel a show called Toddlers and Tiaras aired, which has created much controversy. The children are dressed up in adult costumes and perform acts that are not age appropriate. While some may say that beauty pageants are a form of sports, upon examining all of the evidence it is clear that these young girls are being sexually exploited because of the body language and dance moves, hair and make-up, provocative clothing and the pedophiles who attend these shows.
I tried going to alternative school while working and pregnant but that did not last but a semester either. I was to worried about what my child’s father was doing that I also quit going to that school. Six months after having my first child I ended up pregnant with my second one. I knew from then that I had no chance of ever going back. So I got married at 17 and started just playing the house wife and mom, till it came to me having to find a job.
There are a lot of different views on which way is the right, but Amy Chua is sure, that her method is the secure way to make her children success. One of the first things we read in the article is a list of what Amy Chuas children aren’t allowed to do. Things like: Sleepovers, having a playdate or watching television, are totally unacceptable. In the western world is that very normal stuff to do when you are a kid, but in China it’s not the kids who decide what talent they want to cultivate, but the parents. And mostly, the parents choose school and playing a classic instrument to be the first priorities.
The ethical and moral issues are broad in scope due to the partial acceptance of this new culture of kids. 3. This issue is a dilemma for some schools because of the ethical and moral standards that the administrations hope to achieve is being road-blocked by actions such as grinding and dirty dancing at school dances. This style of dancing is very much so accepted by most kids, even if they do not participate in such actions. On the other hand, some parents and administration members feel opposed to this style of dancing because it advocates sexual actions and crude behavior.
Those opposed to Child Beauty Pageants state they are overly sexualized. Documentarian Jane Treays has called pageants “bizarre contests in which children are painted and pompadour to look like mini-hookers.” Critics also say that pageants instill questionable values in children. Child psychologist Elizabeth Dybell states that “primping for pageants is not dress-up pretending to go to work like Mommy does or vacuum the house like Mommy does. It’s a very sexualized, sensual model of someone
They wanted to change the way society thought of the female dancing body and liberate it of the strict constraints of traditional dance therefore also on a wider scale, liberating the female of traditional roles in society and at home. Although they were not politically active feminists, their thoughts and ideals and the issues they were dealing with were all related to the feminist movement of the time making them individual feminist thinkers. Their roles as choreographers and dancers put them in a central position in the feminist debates of the time which
This is the poisonous cycle of Child Beauty Pageants, a practice that has being going on since the 1920s.Children should be playing, not caking on make-up to look like a perfect Barbie doll. We need to stop the shameful sexualisation of children. We don't need to encourage paedophilia. We need to educate children that there is more to life than looks, we shouldn't be raising a generation of self-obsessed and vain people. We need to stop poisoning children with incredibly unhealthy and dangerous substances.