Are American Beauty Pageants starring young children sexualising children?

I watched a programme about it and as a Scot found it a shocking and horrifying that mothers would dress up their young girls in adult attire with full-on makeup - and that this was a big industry. I am sure Britain would throw the full weight of law on this if it occurred on these shores. There must be thousands of paedophiles that follow this around the states.


I would really value American opinions on this, as this way of treating girls is so alien to me, and anyone who participates in this will find it strange that i dont get it.Are American Beauty Pageants starring young children sexualising children?
yes there are lots of paedophiles within the pageant industry, the parent's don't care they are doing it for themselves not the child and yes this is normally a mother doing it to a daughter putting her at risk or worse forcing them to be sexually abused to win by cheating..as long as they are the mother of the winner they don't careAre American Beauty Pageants starring young children sexualising children?
Only in America.
They are amongst the most disturbing thing I have ever witnessed. I makes one wonder what is wrong with the parents and other adults involved.
Only in the US of America
Well if you start early, there are more chances you end up being a Paris Hilton.





ARRRGGGHHHHHH I THINK I SAW BARNEY??? !!!!!
yeah, it's true, it's disgusting the way they dress them up. Kids shouldn't be doing things like that, dressing up like an adult, there are some sick people out there, and they'll enjoy the whole thing too much and those people shouldn't be able to see kids that way, or at all.
If you look around UK high streets you will see parents doing the same to their children every day.


I despise the current trend of making little girls look like grown up, and grown up dressing like little girls.


It is forcing the girls into specific gener roles, roles that should be a mix of familial and wider system influence, not what TV says
I watched a programme about it too. I couldnt believe what I wash watching. The mothers were like crazy idiots, trying to make up for their lost youth. These children dont know any better but their parents should. There is something very weird about young girls being made to look adult
thats the ';moral majority ';for you