[Dixie Yooper]

"It's sick. It teaches girls that you are only what you look like, not who you are inside. That's a hard enough thing to deal with when a girl is 18, it's impossible to process when you're six."

Does you wife and daughters were burkas or are you more into the Amish or strict Mennonite apparel?
Child molesters are predators/hunters. They don't care how you dress up your kids or where you take them. Look at the sick religious creep that kidnapped the Mormon girl out in Utah a few years ago. He was doing gardening at her house, broke in during the middle of the night and abducted her right our of her bed in front of her sister. He dressed her and his girl fiend up in burka like robes. I guess he also had a problem with the way American girls and women dress.

[hunter112]

Does you wife and daughters were burkas or are you more into the Amish or strict Mennonite apparel?

OK, so it's either burkas or Britney Spears, there's no middle ground for you?

Yes, I know all about child molesters, my ex married one, and I went to court twelve years ago to get custody of my two younger kids while she was contemplating doing this. I've studied it up one side, and down the other. While I think teaching a pre-school child to shake her booty like a stripper might just increase the exposure that a little girl has to predators, it always gives these children a perverse sense of reality.

It focuses the child's attention on her looks, and not her personality, or her willingness to study, or the value of all human beings. It turns otherwise decent girls into materialistic spoiled b!tches, who believe that acting a certain way for men is the way to get what you want. It inspires the less-than-picture-perfect others to emulate them with eating disorders, and self-esteem issues. They teach boys that what a girl looks like on his arm is way more important than her morals, values, brains, and disposition.

Even if all the child predators were killed (a great idea, in my estimation) there'd still be more than enough reason to get rid of child beauty pageants for the harm they do to our kids.