She believes that these children were being robbed of the innocence of their childhood by parents who were feeding their own egos. These children were pageant contestants not by their own choosing, but by the choice of their parents. Entering a young child into a beauty pageant for the first time is the parent's decision, not the child's. Parents take their children out of their natural childhood environment before they are old enough to realize what problems this could cause for them in the future. The parents, usually mothers, are more interested in the glamour and prizes, rather than the welfare of their young child.
Some parents even try to live their lives through their children.
Mothers are able to do this through beauty pageants. Mothers are able to take their young children and try to mold them into what they want. They pick out all of their child's clothing and control everything that they do, on and off the stage. They can make their child into what they want or what they wished they were when they were children. I wish I had your life when I was growing up.