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Persuasive Essay On Child Beauty Pageants

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Child beauty pageants and competitions started in 1855 by P.T. Barnum, this competition was known as the “international baby shows” with 143 child participants. But pageants didn’t become popular until the 1960’s. Now pageants have sprung into a nationwide phenomenon with over 5,000 pageants and 250,000 participants. These ages vary from as young as 6 months old to 18 years old. Beauty pageants should not be promoted to young girls because it promotes child abuse, it encourages unhealthy ideals, and lastly, beauty pageants and contests oversexualize young girls.
One important reason is beauty pageants and contest promotes child abuses. “Child abuse is when a parent or caregiver, whether through action or failure to act, causes injury, death,
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