8-year-old Britney Campbell has been removed from the custody of her mother. Her mother didn't beat her that we know of. She didn't lock her in a cage or starve her. What was her sin? She waxed her 8-year-old's legs and pubic area and injected Botox, that she purchased via a web site, into her face. So she would be pretty. For beauty pageants.
Why would a mother do these things to her 8-year-old daughter? This really isn't about the daughter. It's about the mother. The mother who wants her daughter to be everything that she wasn't. Or isn't. God forbid she just let her daughter be a little girl.
Beauty pageants for little girls are, in effect, an opportunity for moms and dads to act as pimps for their little girls. Beauty pageants are so that little girls can start early knowing that they just don't measure up physically. That their hair could be bigger, their make-up better and their butts tighter. Beauty pageants are so that sexual predators can... I don't even want to go there.
I don't understand what sane parent would even think of entering their little girl in one of these events. Oh. Sane. That's the word.
It's time for these pageants to end. Completely. It's time for churches, child safety advocates, community leaders and everyone who cares about the welfare of children to insist that these sick, sexually abusive pageants are stopped. TLC, are you listening? You need to pull Tiaras for Tots off of the air and destroy the recordings.
So the next time you hear of one of these events in your area, call someone who can do something about it. Get your friends together for a protest and coffee. Write some letters. Make some phone calls. Maybe even contact TLC.
I hope that Britney Campbell comes out of this without too much damage. I hope her mom can get her act together and start just being a mom letting her little girl be exactly what she is. We can only hope.
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