Child beauty pageants

By Merel Roest

Outline

• What is a child beauty pageant?• How it started• The child beauty pageant business• Parents of a pageant child• Advantages and disadvantages

What is a child beauty pageant?

Beauty contest for children from 0 to 18 years old

Judged by a professional jury

Children are judged on…• Talent• Dance• Dress• Make-up• Hairstyle• Modeling swimwear• Etcetera

The complete package…

How it started

• Originated in the USA in 1921

• Marketing tool

• Pageants became a major event

• Discontinued from 1929-1932 due to the Great Depression.

The child beauty pageant business

• Operated by for-profit organizations

• One of the fastest growing industries in the USA

• Parents spend a lot of money

The child beauty pageant business

• High entrance fee

• Expensive dress

• Professional coaching

• Professional photographs

• Professional hair & make-up

Big prizes• $ 10.000 Cash• Cars• Scholarships• Fame

Example of costs

Investment Costs Entry fee $ 250Dress $ 5000Professional hair and make up $ 100Spray tan $ 50Fake teeth (flipper) $ 700Professional photographs $ 1000Highly professional coaching $ 1000Total amount of costs $ 8100

Cash prize $ 10.000

Profit $1.900

Bar chart

Parents of a pageant child

Motives

• Create a successful child

• Learn necessary skills to move up the social scale.

• Hoping that children will have professional careers.

Parents of a pageant child

Marleigh’s momhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRZyzccF02I&feature=channel

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages of child beauty pageants

• Children feel self secured• Children feel comfortable in front of big

audiences• Scholarships• Pageants help beneficial programs

Advantages and disadvantages

Disadvantages of child beauty pageants• Parents are obsessed with winning • Parents force their children• Kids can get depressed, get eating disorders or

have body distortions

Thank you for listening!

Questions?

Let’s discuss…

Theses!

1. Child beauty pageants are a form of child abuse

2. The government should regulate child beauty pageants

(guarding kids against manipulative adults)

3. There should be a minimun age to enter a beauty pageant

4. Children should not wear make-up on stage

5. Parents should not let their child model swimwear

(promoting sexuality at young age)