1. Beauty Contests and Loss of Innocence
... Sentence The first lesson children learn is that personal appearance is everything. The "dressing-up" that they do in these pageants is far from innocent play. (In-text citation expert opinion quote) "Unfortunately", remarked Samuel Windsor, Pediatric Therapist at the University of Michigan Medical Center, and author of Child Beauty Pageants Can Be Dangerous, stated, "this ... , form relationships with others, and value themselves." If a child's appearance does not conform to society's standards for beauty, then winning the competition is out of the question. (In-text citation, paraphras...
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