Beauty Pageants and Our Children Alost 3 million children‚ most of them girls‚ from the ages of 6 months and 17 years compete in beauty pageants annually in America. Competition can be local and national and they compete in categories such as swimwear‚ talent‚ costume of your choice‚ and eveningwear. This is an industry where mothers give her daughter energy drinks for a boost before pageants‚ 3-year-olds don fake fingernails‚ and parents regularly spend five thousand dollars on a child’s pageant
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Hunger Games and Toddlers and Tiaras Comparison Essay There are many major differences between the Hunger Games and Toddlers and Tiaras. One of the most recognizable differences between the two‚ is that the Hunger Games is a book about a girl trying to survive a game for the entertainment of the capitol and for scaring the citizens from rebellion. Whereas the reality television show toddlers and tiaras is about little girls beauty pageants. One of the numerous and large differences between
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Moss‚ Hilary. "Kerry Campbell‚ Mom Who Gives 8-Year-Old Botox‚ Being Investigated By Child Welfare Services." Huffington Post [Chicago] 13 May 2011‚ 43 ed.‚ sec. 4a: 7. The Internet Website. Web. 20 Sept. 2011. "Rumble in the Jungle/55." Toddlers & Tiaras. TLC. 10 Aug. 2011. Television.
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counseling. Retrieved April 23‚ 2014‚ from Toddlers & Tiaras | Healthy or Harmful? | Are Moms Living Vicariously through their Daughters?: http://www.totallifecounseling.com/2012/04/toddlers-tiaras-healthy-or-harmful-are-moms-living-vicariously-through-their-daughters/ Conley‚ M. (2011‚ September 5). Pedophile ’s Delight? ’Toddlers and Tiaras ’ Star‚ 4‚ Dons Fake Boobs‚ Butt. Retrieved April 23‚ 2014‚ from ABCNews: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/year-toddlers-tiaras-star-dons-fake-boobs-butt/story?id=14430223
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Pretty Babies Many of us first learned about the world of child beauty pageants when a 5 ½ year old beauty queen named JonBenet Ramsey was found murdered the day after Christmas in 1996. The child was murdered in her Boulder Colorado home and found in the basement with her hands tied‚ her mouth duct taped‚ and her throat garroted. Her death was ruled strangulation but there was also blunt force trauma to her head as well as vaginal injury (Auge‚ Karen‚ par. 13-15). Her death brought these
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to young girls and women that youth‚ beauty and love go together to make a complete and happy existence in life. From reality television shows such as Toddlers and Tiaras‚ to youth clothing stores such as Justice‚ and Dove beauty ads geared toward women of all ages the portrayal of having to be pretty is everywhere you look. Toddlers and Tiaras is a reality television show of the behind the scenes events of child beauty pageants. The children on the show are spray tanned‚ wear makeup‚ and wear
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spent way too many hours practicing a routine or exercising their smile to score high in the intense competition of child beauty pageants. These pampered princesses are brainwashed by their mothers to have one goal in mind: “get the money or get the tiara” (Grosaru 1). Most of these beauties finally dwindle down and end up having self-identity or self-esteem problems. Is this the state these young girls should be in to attribute to a successful future of their generation? Despite the negative side of
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contestants: Associations with adult disordered eating and mental health. 13(3)‚ 291. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=s3h&AN=17107849&site=eds-live Aradillas‚ E.‚ West‚ K.‚ & Triggs‚ C. (2011). Toddlers & tiaras: Too much too soon?. 76(12)‚ 160-168. Retrieved fromhttp://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db =f5h&AN=65549278&site=eds-live Feldhahn‚ S.‚ & Sarvady‚ A. (2009). Woman to woman: The merits of kiddie beauty pageants;
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Web. 12 Apr. 2014. * Lieberman‚ Lindsay. "Protecting Pageant Princesses: A Call for Statutory Regulation of Child Beauty Pageants." Journal of Law & Policy 18.2 (2010): P739-774. Brooklyn Law School‚ 2010. Web. 9 Apr. 2014. Tamer‚ Christine. "Toddlers‚ Tiaras‚ and Pedophilia? The "Borderline Child Pornography" Embraced by the American Public." Texas Review of Entertainment & Sports Law 13.1 (Fall 2011): 85-101. Web. 9 Apr. 2014. Wolfe‚ Lucy. "The Dark Side of Child Beauty Pageants and an Administrative
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Beauty pageants have been around in America for decades; however‚ they have not gained notoriety until the show "Toddlers and Tiaras" aired on national television. The airing of "Toddlers and Tiaras" has brought child pageants to the attention of many Americans. Not many people were aware of what took place in beauty pageants‚ but ever since the show debuted in 2009 there has been an intense controversy about children as young as newborns being entered into pageants. Some people say that pageants
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