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Originally Posted by blessedcursor
A show like this will probably smoke out a lot of (would be) kidnappers and pedophiles. But at what cost? How many children will be victimized in the process?
Nothing is more dangerous to a child than putting her on display like this. Any parent should have an intuitive awareness of this. Young girls everwhere are being endangered by this show to the effect that everyone involved should be removed from society.
Even JonBenet Ramsey's father now believes that he made a mistake in putting his daughter on display. And I can't say JonBenet was ever exploited and sexualized to the extent the girls on Dance Moms are.
Children are being abused because we tolerate it. Indeed, we stand by and watch.
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The question of "on display" has many permutations.
I come from a part of the country where kids' beauty pageants are a non issue. But kids, boys and girls, are involved in many things including (and not limited to) sports like tennis and soccer (tiny outfits at a public park), acting (kids going in alone to an audition room), kids who are in Boy/Girl Scouts, in art classes (high level art classes here for high schoolers do have nude models) and just wearing skimpy clothes in general.
The huge majority of these kids in the above are not abused. The parents are present. The moms of Dance Moms are present.
While I find beauty pageants banal at best I do not equate them with child endangerment. I don't believe that putting your child of display whether in sports, acting or dancing (as you put it) equates to an invitation to pedophiles.
As for the demographics (and they are available) for Dance Moms (which is highly rated) would bear this out.