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Originally Posted by puckluck
How does a child willingfully engage in anything? especially when it involves ripping off her eyebrows for a beauty pageant?
Does a child even understand what is gong on during a beauty pageant?
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Then how does a 5 year old child willfully engage in playing hockey? Or soccer? Or any other activity. I don't disagree with your disapproval of these pageants, but there is far more dangerous, and potentially abusive things a child could be forced into than this, which society would look at as abusive. I had a mini dirt bike when I was 5, which is 50 times more dangerous than this. Was my father abusing me by letting me ride it? Was I willingly riding it? I can't remember any more.
My dad was abusing me when he was kicking the crap out of me for misbehaving as a child, not for putting me on a dirt bike.