Argumentative Essay On Child Beauty Pageants

The Different Views of Child Beauty Pageants.
“I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?” This is a quote by Jean Kerr. To fully understand and finalize ones argument against a controversial topic like Child Beauty Pageants, they must first be provided with all the current and historical background surrounding it, and also others personal views, which is the objective of this paper. Engaging in child beauty pageants puts many children at risk for psychological and social issues. This type of “entertainment” is not acceptable whenever parents are putting their children in danger and at risk for problems later in the future. Children are also led to eating disorders and poor self-esteem because they have been brought up to have endless perfection and once they see that they do not, they strive and do everything in their will to meet their goal. Banning this extracurricular activity would better enhance children. It would help them learn that looks are not what matters most and that having flaws is okay. While saying all of these things, many people would disagree when in reality pageants are not good for children. Allowing them to continue would become an
These three sides have views that counteract with each other but they also have view that are similar and coincide with one another. This argument is between the parents of children who are not in pageants, who have had contestants in the pageants before, psychologists, doctors, and the public who push for the banishment of the pageants; while on the other hand are the pageant moms, judges, anti- banishment public and past