The Detrimental Effects Of Childhood Beauty Pageants

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A Beauty pageants entry fee for a big competition can be about four hundred dollars, their glitz dress can range from five hundred dollars to four thousand dollars. Then additional costumes can range from three hundred to five hundred dollars. Adding more another fifty to hundred dollars to coaching lessons. Additional these are not including travel expense, transportation and hotel costs and food expenses. Children Beauty pageants are quite a cost but they also can be a harm for a child participants. These pageants have detrimental effects on these young participants. They also makes these children sexulizes themselvs in such an early stage in their life. Their unrealistic expectations or standards that cannot be reached. How these parents …show more content…

Studies have shown the connections between childhood beauty pageants and adult disordered eating, body dissatisfaction, depression, and self-esteem. Eleven women who participated in childhood beauty pageants were matched on age and body mass index with 11 non-participating women. Childhood pageant participants scored higher on body dissatisfaction, interpersonal distrust, and impulse dysregulation than non-participants, and showed a trend toward greater ineffectiveness. ( Giroux). This presents that girls who participate in child beauty pageants are more prone to dermatal psychological disorders more than girls who chose to be in a beauty pageants. The study shows how the child mind is still developing and they have a less understanding of life. They take what they learned with them as they become adults and if they lived and breathed beauty pageants and looking beautiful twenty four seven then that's going stick with them that's all what there going to …show more content…

Steal their very innocence. Yet that is precisely what the organisers of children's beauty 'pageants' do (Giroux). Today these parents are taking their child innocent away. They are basically making them like stripper slaves. They tell them to dance like this and talk likes and pose and dress and you're not going to stop until i say you can demanding like they are slaves might label like that because that's how they treated. They drain their kids energy and make them sleep deprived by keeping up with sugar,and energy drinks and these people call it pageant crack to where they force their children to stay up twenty four seven. It amazing what people are willing to do for money or to live their dream and they do it through their

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