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)