Child Beauty pageants… yay or nay?

Pro article:

• Pageant participants learn grace, poise, self esteem, and the ability to remain calm under pressure. These are skills that will serve your child well regardless of what she chooses to do in the future.
• A child who is interested in a career in acting or modeling may find that pageant participation offers great exposure. For example, before becoming an award-winning actress, Halle Berry was crowned Miss Ohio and Miss Teen All-American.
• Many pageants for children offer college scholarships as prizes, providing a good way to save for your child's future educational expenses.
• Pageants can be a good bonding experience for families, offering the chance to travel, socialize, and spend time together.

Con article:

Most of the girls engaging in these pageants are too young to make informed and unbiased decisions about their participation. Many parents live vicariously through their children to fulfill their own dreams of being beauty queens. Even those who seemingly choose this hobby do so only because of the encouragement or pressure of their family to do so. Indeed young girls are too young to care about coiffed up-dos to the point of it being a contest. This competitiveness is the result of parental brainwashing.
After doing some research I have found there are a lot of articles against child pageants and not many for child pageants. But I have found a lot of videos and interviews of pro child pageants. I found two current TV shows, Little Miss Perfect and Toddlers in Tiaras. They are all for the child pageants! Here is a video from YouTube!

Debate

Debate
1. The existence of God.
2. Pageants? Good or Bad
3. Is cheerleading a sport?
4. Little kid Pageants, fun or offensive?

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