I've always been against them. I don't think it's right to teach children to focus on their looks and to teach them that they have to please people. I watched part of a show once to see if maybe I'm missing something and judging those parents too harshly without really knowing anything about them or their lives. I couldn't watch the whole episode because it made me feel sick. It was worse than anything I had imagined. I was fuming at the parents and the child pageant industry and I was saddened that those children have to go through that. They are having so much taken away from them.