Child Beauty Pageants Should Be Banned

In light of the many benefits of child beauty pageants, they need to be supported and guaranteed legal continuation. Point often overlooked, child beauty pageants encourage positive qualities in their participants. The boost in confidence gained and the discipline required by participants, make the competitions a positive hobby for young children to indulge in. Not to mention that the understanding and motivation gained through participation, provides benefits for growth and lifelong success. Moreover, pageants provide boundless opportunities to their participants. For instance, pageant director and former competitor Stephanie Warren, brings up the potential for scholarship money, seeing it as "huge bonus" of the competitions. Her 7 year old
For this reason, nationwide rules and regulations need to be set in play. Certainly, as former school principal Tish Howard points out, establishing standards for routines and attire that, "do not constitute promoting sexual exploitation of children", is an attainable goal. Other competitions, namely junior sports, have a set of nationwide rules in order protect the safety of their players. These rules have proven to be effective and the competitions have earned the trust and approval of the general public. If child beauty pageants are to be protected from outlaw, the public must bring forth a solution that would satisfy all of those concerned. Provided that petitions in favor of nationwide pageant rules are started and people show their support for youth pageants, there will be no reason to suggest an outlaw. As individuals, people can send emails or letters to pageant organizations, presenting their concerns and suggestions. All things considered, to protect child beauty pageants and the benefits they provide young children, effective acts working towards a solution that addresses the issue, need to be set in