Child Beauty Pageant, United States

In 2001, HBO aired its Emmy-winning Living Dolls: The Making a Child Beauty Queen, which garnered much atention.
Law
Besides the laws that regulate child education, pageants are a relatively ungoverned program. Child contestants are not considered "working", so pageants are exempt from federal child labor laws. Pageants also have different rules, so it becomes hard to set a law that will cover every pageant. New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Arkansas, California, Vermont and Maine do not have any laws regulating pageants.