I support the linked article: Child Beauty Pageants are voyeuristic, incestuous displays of paedophilic desire as well as keen, maternal attempts at reducing an underdeveloped human being into a totally objectified non-entity.
America is a scary place, learn from their mistakes: Do not attempt to live vicariously through your child, do not turn your child into an inconveniently mobile doll and acquire some actual moral values before you try and turn a screaming ball of flesh into a well-rounded human being.
While I am normally a vehement defender of personal liberty, in my opinion people should acquire some kind of qualification before they attempt parenthood. One question of the test could be:
Q: Does placing a small child in a hyper-competitive environment, based solely on unhealthy and unrealistic body images, benefit or compromise the child's self esteem?
If an individual's answer is 'benefit', the potential parent undergoes chemical sterilisation. If the potential parent does not understand the question, s/he also gets chemically sterilised. No anaesthetic as pain might help the message sink in - an important aspect of the test since those foul corrupters might find a way to adopt.
