What Is The Argumentative Essay About Beauty Pageants

Child Beauty Pageants

Treating others and valuing others for who they are on the inside and not how they look from the outside. That’s how we were raised and how we are going to raise our children later on. Parents care about every detail that concerns their children. They always want the best for them, they care for their happiness and health. And although some people may think that child beauty pageants has no harm on the child and that it's a way for the child to express herself and have fun by wearing tiaras, makeup, dresses and even heels. Others strongly disagree with that and even ask for those pageants to be canceled and banned just like France, due to its financial strain, possible emotional problems and the physical harm that might happen later on.

The opponents may say that child beauty pageants make children look beautiful and that it increases their self-confidence but actually it's quite the opposite. Young ladies who enter those contests look "beautiful" and "sexy” by wearing layers of makeup, hair extensions, false teeth to hide their baby ones, high heels, reveling outfits and by learning provocative moves and poses. So, how does this make the child beautiful when everything she is wearing and doing is fake?

According to Good Morning America show, the average cost of a pageant dress is $1,000 and some cost as much as $5,000. Also the entry fees for pageants typically cost $100 or $200. Also some pageants require contestants to wear several outfits, which can raise the price even further. Lastly, the high cost travel expenses that the parents will have to pay. And let’s not forget about the money they’ll have to pay for makeup experts, trainers to teach the child how to move and act and doctor’s appointment if the child has pimples or not aligned tooth. So, the average cost the parents will pay is not going to be less than