[pcottraux]

My stepdaughter was a product of pageants...she credits them for teaching her the poise, grace and confidence she exhibits today. My husband "allowed" it...ya wanna tell me he's a perverted creep?

I'm just looking at it and seeing that some people get overzealous in these child pageants. I'm not saying it happens all the time, but if it happens at all, it's worth a look. I mean, I've heard about parents entering their children into beauty pageants and making them go through plastic surgery to make their faces perfect and then caking them with tons of makeup. It's just weird, and I don't like it.

[Toby06]

I've heard about parents entering their children into beauty pageants and making them go through plastic surgery to make their faces perfect

That ain't right.

[I want to know]

I'm just looking at it and seeing that some people get overzealous in these child pageants.

That may be true. But some people get overzealous in Little League sports, some people get overzealous in their children's schooling, some people get overzealous in disciplining their children -- it doesn't make the activity itself bad. And it surely doesn't give journalists or others the right to accuse a parent of being a bad parent or a murderer.

I don't particularly care for beauty pageants of all stripes, never interested me. But I don't think parents are murderers because their daughters participate in them.