tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081447.post5055525512049409274..comments2024-02-19T09:57:54.701-08:00Comments on The Angry Dad: Punished for a beauty pageantGeorgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16032672334544228703noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081447.post-66730989887987124822012-08-22T20:44:05.695-07:002012-08-22T20:44:05.695-07:00These beauty pageants are like many other activiti...These beauty pageants are like many other activities. They appeal to certain types of parents, and have various pros and cons. I don't like them, but no one cares about my opinion. I object to the logic that says that married and single parents can do them, but divorced parents cannot.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16032672334544228703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081447.post-64779362970964123352012-08-22T20:14:22.239-07:002012-08-22T20:14:22.239-07:00"If the pageants are so harmful, then pass a ..."If the pageants are so harmful, then pass a law against them...Family court judges have way too much power. The law should just let both parents have joint custody. If the mom wants to do beauty pageants on her time, and the pageants are legal, then it is none of anyone's business." Spot on right there.<br /><br />And note Wendy Walsh's comment that the pageants constituted emotional abuse. The thing I've noticed from the family court stories you have posted is that judges make up all sorts of frivolous interpretations of emotional abuse. And then in your own custody case there was the CPS agent who <a href="http://blog.angry-dad.com/2009/10/california-math-scores-among-lowest.html" rel="nofollow">considered a math contest to be abusive</a>.<br /><br />And my quick search of studies regarding child beauty pageants turned up little, but wikipedia's article about child beauty pageants has <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_beauty_pageant#Criticism" rel="nofollow">a section that reads</a>:<br /><br />"In a study published in 2005, eleven women who had competed in beauty pageants as children were compared to a control group of eleven women who had not competed. They were compared in different areas, such as BMI, age and overall body satisfaction. In general, this limited study found that those who competed in beauty pageants as children were more dissatisfied with their bodies, and had greater impulse dysregulation and trust issues than those who did not participate, but showed no significant differences in measures of bulimia, body perception, depression, or self-esteem. The authors acknowledged their small sample size reduced the conclusiveness of their study."Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8081447.post-61205033999959448612012-08-21T08:59:16.172-07:002012-08-21T08:59:16.172-07:00All of hypocrites have problems with heterosexual ...All of hypocrites have problems with heterosexual related activities. But they have no problem with homosexual related things. Dulanthahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11005397450852152002noreply@blogger.com