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    parents’ house has lead only to the confusion of the police and her parents (Glieck). Even though it’s appropriate for pre-teens to be in pageants, it’s not always appropriate for toddlers. It shouldn’t be all about winning the awards, wearing customized outfits, dramatic makeup, and the memorizing positions. It’s appropriate for pre-teens to be in the pageants but the mothers of toddlers should never allow them to, it is an inevitable part of life (“Controversy over Children’s”). Many of

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    1 Joining a Child In A Beauty Pageant Needs To Be Restrained As Claimed By Psychology Students In Silliman University Child beauty pageants have been a topic for debates and studies regards to its credibility being safe for children. A child pageant competition consists of several categories such as swim wear, casual wear, talent portion, question and answer, evening gown or theme wear. Contestants may wear make ups, elaborate hairstyles, designed and fitted outfits to present themselves on stage

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    000 children in child beauty pageants all throughout the United States. As many people know, child beauty pageants consist of children dressing up in revealing dresses, tons of makeup, and fake hair. Many of these kids grow up to have struggles with perfection, dieting, eating disorders and their body image. These kids need to learn that beauty isn't just what’s on the outside and that there’s a lot more in life than the need to always look perfect. 2. Children in beauty pageants 3. Undecided; Boston

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    Child Beauty Pageants are competitions held all around the world featuring girls and boys aged under 16. The categories of the pageant include singing, dancing, modelling clothes such as swimwear and western wear, and of course the most important, walking down the catwalk, strutting poses. Contestants in these contests may be found wearing a full face of makeup, spray tans, fake teeth, overdone hair with lots of hair spray and designer and very expensive costumes to show off their routine. After

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    Child beauty pageants are a world-wide phenomenon. Children all over the world get dressed up in big, beautiful dresses with extreme hair and makeup. The children will then strut across the stage all to win a six-foot-tall trophy. The children compete against other children the same age to win the ultimate grand supreme of their age group. Children are entered into the pageant by their mothers. Some mothers enter their children into the pageants to win scholarships, while other mothers want their

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    Child beauty pageants have become an increasingly controversial topic throughout the years. By some, it is considered to be a form of child exploitation and abuse. However, opponents argue that beauty pageants allow children to learn how to compete in a healthy environment. Young children, starting at just a few years old, are paraded around a stage dressed in provocative clothing and faces full of makeup. Children need to grow up in an environment where tolerance and acceptance of everyone's differences

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    A Child Beauty Pageant is a beauty competition among children under 15 years old. These competitions are divided into different sections, includes talents, casual and swim outfit, interview,Evening wear and theme outfits. Beauty pageants make children to believe that without heavy make-up, fake lashes, wigs, expensive outfits and also white teeth, they will be one of the ugliest and weirdest child in society, it teaches children that they have to be fake until everyone like them. Because of the many

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    With the advent of the popular TLC television show Toddlers and Tiaras, child beauty pageants are more popular than ever. The first child beauty pageants were held in the mid-1960s, and have become a billion dollar industry since its conception. In recent history, the ethics of these types of competitions have been criticized and made into a controversial issue, with the murder of child beauty star Jon-Benét Ramsey in the mid-nineties, television programs and documentaries premiering in the 2000s

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    Child beauty pageants create a boned with parent and child because they spend a lot of time together, communication, and having something in common. For example, the child and parent will have to spend a lot of time together. They will have to do hair and makeup which will last anywhere to two hours to almost three. All the categories that the child joins will take time to practice which most children send about seven hours a week on it, and with their parent being their coach that means they will

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    #7 Mrs. Flynn March 9, 2015 Child Beauty Pageants (Little Miss Perfect) Most people believe that child beauty pageants are ridiculous and should be banned. They feel this way because these girls do not have a choice to be in the pageants. “Beauty pageants started in the 1920s in Atlantic City. The business owners needed a way to keep tourists there past Labor Day so they introduced pageantry.” (Williams) Now the parent’s place these girls into these pageants at a young age were they do not know

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