I will say this about child pageants. The way a contestant feels about herself has everything to do with her parents. My parents NEVER pushed me to "win." They never pushed me period. I was always the one who wanted to do them. They ALWAYS told me that they were proud of me, whether I won or lost. There ARE some parents, however, who push and push and push their girls and tell them that they better not come home if they don't win. That is where the problem lies right there....it's with the parents. But that is how it is anywhere....you can't blame it on the pageants. There are parents causing low self esteem in their daughters who DON'T participate in pageants. A parent has to make their child feel loved and feel that they are beautiful and tell their children how proud they are of them, whether it is in a beauty pageant or in life. If a parent does not do this, then the child is going to have low self-esteem. You cannot attribute that to the beauty pageants. |