On Christmas Day, 1996, six-year-old JonBenet Ramsey was murdered in Boulder, Colorado. Shortly after her tiny body was discovered, the story of her brief life became public, especially details about her involvement in child beauty pageants. Within a few weeks, the spotlight was turned on the pageants themselves. The public quickly learned that at these events, held in nearly every state across the United States, female children, more so than male children, are basically the targets and, as young as ten months old, they wear makeup and extreme fashions to compete for titles and money. .
Thesis Statement.
Despite the large number of people who claim that most children are being "forced" to compete, and those who claim that these events are a form of innocent fun and recreation, reports clearly indicate that beauty pageants can have a negative and lasting effect on young female participants. .
Topic Sentence.
It seems that those who support the pageants give very convincing reasons why more parents should consider entering their young girls in competition for the social life they encourage, and for the possible money-making aspects. (Personal quote) Mary Smith said, "Being a baby-sitter, one of the young children I sat with was an eight-year-old girl whose mother was a "pageant mother." One day, the mother asked me to pick up her daughter from pageant practice (which helped girls with their performances). When I arrived the girl was sitting in a corner, leaning on the wall, and was asleep. When I woke her up I had to help her up. She was so limp and she began to cry. She asked me not to tell her mother she was crying because her mother would get mad." The above-mentioned promoters and parents of contestants are ignoring the fact that some of the lessons these competitions teach are damaging to children's emotional and physical well-being. .
Topic Sentence.
The first lesson children learn is that personal appearance is everything.
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