Stereotypes In Beauty Pageants

Girls in these competitions are sexualized so early on in their lives. Children who take part in these competitions are brought up putting a huge deal of focus on outer appearances, which can cause substantial emotional and psychological damage. Children learn their values while they are young, and beauty pageant participants grow up thinking that a woman 's worth comes in part by how attractive they are. Girls in the competitions, and even girls who watch these pageants on TV, are learning that they need to look a certain way to look attractive.” As these children grow up, they are going to strongly fail at relationship, as normally people have been men 22% have cheated on their spouse if these girls grow up to be “perfect”. They are going to take it extremely hard if a man cheats on them.

The winner of beauty contest is very thin and do make up really well, so many children do hard to become such person. Also children try to become adult. Parents of children try their children to become beauty, and want children to become proud. Some time, parents try children to attend child beauty contest not for their children, but for their name.

Parents who enter their kids are condemned as attempting to experience their life, desire and need to feel wonderful and beautiful again through their kid, constraining their kid to perform under stage mum weight, to help them feel better about their lives. Other reactions incorporate constraining youngsters to wear make-up and improper outfit for children of that age. Children should be banned from participating in beauty pageants due to the psychological and physical abuse. Child beauty pageants are a form of psychological abuse and should be banned as a result. Parents forcing their children to participate child beauty pageants is obviously coming from dismal, over educated, upper middle class individuals who have never been inebriated by the spotlight.

Children are focusing on their beauty and not their education, or relationships. Beauty pageants have a negative effect on female adolescents, because of low self esteem, children growing up too fast, and beauty enhancements performed on young girls. Self esteem and and bad relationships are effects on girls from participating in beauty pageants. Many young girls are also taught that they’re beauty is the most important thing. Furthermore many young girls have low self esteem from watching and competing in beauty pageants.

Beauty Pageants are events which women and younger girls or boys compete in across the world but the most popular country for these pageants are USA. The age requirements start at 3 years for both girls and boys, I feel this is too young an age to start brainwashing them. Many critics claim that the beauty pageants place more emphasis on the physical aspects of the body and over look the other aspects. This is what causes these pageants to be so unhealthy for the younger children competing. On the day of the pageant the contestants get interviewed and the judges will ask questions.

With shows like Toddlers and Tiaras, young girls are facing harsh realities of adults choosing which child is the prettiest, the most charming. Many now wonder if competing in beauty pageants adversely affect a child’s development. Beauty pageants deprive children of their confidence and childhoods because they lower girls self esteem, they force children to look and act like adults, and they teach young girls about unrealistic beauty standards, and other negative messages. Beauty Pageants deprive children of their confidence and

Kaitlyn Asher Mr. Boruff Honors English 12 29 January 2018 What’s on the Inside Most children in America grow up being told that their personality and beauty on the inside are most important. However, there is a multi-billion dollar industry built around the opposite of that ideal- child pageantry. Child pageants teach their contestants that their natural beauty is not sufficient, which results in the development of psychological disorders and self-esteem issues. Child beauty pageants are beauty contests featuring contestants under 16 years of age. They first became popular when six-year-old pageant contestant JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered in her home in 1996 (Hassan).

I never thought I would become a confident person, but I finally conquered my insecurities. At fifteen years old, most teenage females experience low self-esteem because they are in the process of discovering themselves and gaining experience. Also, females are very media driven, believing that they have to weigh and look a certain way. I could relate to this to when I was in grade ten, I was an outgoing and friendly person; however, deep down I was just a shy and insecure girl. I remember how much I loved to dance.

Parents don’t realize what they are doing to their children. They are taking away the childhood, which id the most important time of a person’s life. Most of these children are not having fun because they are being forced to the pageants. These children are more than likely to grow up with no self-esteem and hating their bodies since they think that they are not beautiful. They will end up seeing everything wrong with themselves.

Beauty pageants are held in many countries around the world, where girls go to show off their costumes, talent and of course their beauty. The media has exalted beauty pageants on television with shows like toddlers and tiaras. Children should not be in an environment that affect them negatively at a young age. Some people might think that these pageants develop a child’s confidence; however, everything has a positive and a negative impact, which in this case the negative wins! A girl at the age of 6 maybe 8 that should be spending time in playing with her friends, getting dirt and sand all over herself, is spending time in salons!