Father of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey breaks silence in recent interview

I am a beauty pageant fan but a child is too young to be in beauty pageants. Wait until they are in their teen years at least. I know JonBenet's late mom was former beauty pageant contestant.

Beauty pageant's are nothing more than putting women and young girls up on a stage like pieces of meat to be gawked at for their looks, which is propagating other problems such as cutting, eating disorders, severe depression, and even suicides.

I'll be glad when there are no beauty pageants in this world and let the pageants take cheer-leading and ball teams in schools with them so the schools can get back to teaching real lessons and adding music and art back to the classroom as it's proven time and time again that children who participate in the arts and music receive higher grades in all classes, continue beyond senior year into college where many graduate and return again as undergraduates, which opens up the entire world to them, which is something that beauty pageants and cheer-leading along with ball teams do not. What good are Little Johnny and Little Janie if Johnny can throw a ball and Janie can jump up and down in a shirt that shows her rear end to everyone along with walking across a stage in so little cloth it wouldn't cover a coffee mug prancing around like a sow at auction when neither of these kids can read or comprehend the most elementary of subjects or balance something as simple as a checkbook?

With regards to sports, if parents want them so badly then set up a community team and keep them out of our schools where it interferes with the learning process. As for cheer-leading and pageantry, after Little Janie gets knocked up by the quarterback of the football team the parents have no right to say anything b/c they refused to talk to their children about birth control and sexual protection against STDs with no cures and those that are literally a death sentence. In addition, perhaps Little Johnny wouldn't be so eager to get into Little Janie's pants if she wasn't showing damn near everything behind a few strands of cloth then quoting what every contestant wants and that's always "World Peace!" CRAP! They don't want world peace. It's the payday and the recognition no matter what part of their soul they have to sell to get it and I'm actually sick of it and many other parents are equally sick of it. Again, if Janie wants to wear nothing & jump up and down like a piece of meat on display at a ball game she can do so at the community's ball team events but not in the school system.

The lives of many young girls and young boys would be saved a lot of emotional devastation, trauma, and depression that leads to the conditions mentioned above if the ball teams and pageants were gone forever; hwr, if the community wants to set up their own ball teams, I would be find with it as long as it wasn't attached to the school or during the school day when the child should be learning to read, write, compute math, comprehend the world around them, and know more about history and present day activities than they do video games and various birthmarks on a cheer-leader or pageants backside!