Answer:
The author's message is that children's beauty contests are controversial and may not present benefits for children.
Explanation:
In “Winner Crowned at Miss Northern Iowa Child Pageant” the author shows how even among many parents who encourage and support their children to participate in beauty contests, there are many parents who do not believe that this is a healthy and beneficial competition for children, making these beauty contests very controversial.
Parents who are against this type of contest, claim that children are used as a spectacle, painted in a way that even adult women would rule, in addition to not being taught with good and constructive values, being used as an object for the benefit of administrators and not themselves.
