Beauty pageants

I finally got around to looking at the latest issue of an online photography magazine, AK47. My favourite series of photos was this one of girls aged 1-5 whose parents enter them in beauty pageants. There are some amazing, usually very sad, photos. I can't link to them directly, but photos 9, 13, 14, and 20 stand out. I can't believe there are actually pageants for children that are hardly old enough to walk.