What do you think of child beauty pageants?

All child beauty contests do is teach the kid that people's worth should be judged by their appearance, when we should be teaching them the opposite.

Nothing wrong with dressing up your toddler like a little whore. Seriously I think the parents should be shot & left in a ditch to be eaten by large cats.

I don't think it's sick, but you've got to let kids have a childhood. They've got a whole adolescence and adulthood of being judged for the way they look. Why take away the last little window of freedom they have?

Anytime I see a parent trying to live vicariously through their child like that, I want to slap them across the face hard enough to leave a bruise and tell them to get over themselves.

I find the entirety of it to be just gross and detrimental to a child's mind. From now all that she will think about is beauty and put it on a pedestal. All the time she has to be beautiful. Little children should not be wearing make up. If you want enter a beauty pageant when you're older, like late teens, then that's alright. But at a young age I disapprove.

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Totally disgusting. These girls put that fake teeth thing in their mouth, tan, wear more makeup than a fuckin clown, and the mothers are always these fat gross fucks. I hate it

It's essentially just a bunch of fat, stupid mothers who attempt to profit off the fact that their kids are particularly enticing to pedophiles.

I think that beauty pageants are to be perfectly honest an absolute discrace. By all means feel free to call me old fashioned and maybe even a bit out of touch but I think little girls should be little girls in their innocent floral beautiful boe tied smock dresses rather than caked in make up where they look like they're ready to hit the town. The world of a child is an enchanting wonderful uncorrupt and innocent place which I believe they need to reatain for as long as possible. x

I think that it is completly wrong for little kids to do it, when they are ten or eleven and WANT to do it, then fine, but not when they can't really know if they want to do it or not.

Shame on those excuses for parents.

I think they're vile.

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Two words: Fucked the hell UP! wait make that 4 words.

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If someone votes 'I do pageants with my child' please comment also.

Hate them. Children are not show animals to be groomed around to be judged by other people. Think of the issues this could raise in a childs mind!

It enrages me. Your children are not your playthings. They are PEOPLE! Not DOLLS! I saw a clip on TYT, because they were commenting on it, and they had a TWO YEAR OLD dressed up like Madonna.

I don't like it. It's like these parents view their children as accessories or like a doll they can dress up.

Not in this day and age.

I disapprove. Mainly this is because from what I've seen (a good number of my younger cousins were in the pageant circuit), it's not about the kids enjoying themselves or anything like that, it's about the parents being competitive. Also, anything that sexualizes a child is not okay in my book, and a lot of those pageant competitions go beyond just looking cute or pretty. Young girls being judged on how they look in bikinis with dyed hair, spray tans and full make-up is NOT cool!

There needed to be one more option: I don't approve, it's sick and wrong, but I love a good trainwreck.

I don't mind it but it's not for me. Let me know when they start putting tween beauty pageants on tv.

I was going to say "I strongly disapprove of it" before I remembered that not all child pageants are like the ones we see on TV- while it is wrong that a lot of parents exploit their children, there are also natural pageants which truly do build children's confidence. I chose "I disapprove" because there aren't enough limitations- parents are allowed to do anything at all to their children. There need to be more rules involved.

I think it teaches a lesson that everyone needs to learn eventually.

That you're going to have to jump through the ridiculous hoops of trying to earn someone's approval and to accept that they ain't shit unless they are willing to do those things if they want to get anywhere in life.

But they teach these girls this in a very harsh manner that accustoms them to what is essentially constant anxiety and emotional turbulence and there is no way in hell that these kids can be developing properly with that kind of weight on their shoulders.

That being said, it is great for children that have a real interest in this kind of thing that isn't conditioned into them by their Mothers, but I still believe that these pageants HAVE TO HAVE TO HAVE TO be given regulations for the child's health and safety. I think the pageant, for children, until they are old enough to truly make their own cosmetic and competitive decisions, should be treated as a workplace for children and should be given the same health and safety rules that any workplace would be given.

First off, botox being an illegal form of getting the edge, as well as a limit of an 8 hour "workday" and limits as to the amount of tanning the children can do etc. trying to limit decisions that should only be made by adults for themselves. Let the over-competitive pageant Mommies enforce the rules for us. Eventually they will all have to at least pretend to play fair, because bad sportsmanship would be against the rules too, and other various methods that could constitute as child abuse.

I strongly disapprove of it. It's sick, perverted and abusive towards the children. The adults involved should all be jailed and the contests should be permanently banned.

I'm the first person to be ok with it =/

I can understand why alot of people disagree, but as long as the child isn't being forced into it, I don't see it as a problem.