Botox injections to achieve an aesthetic effect. No particular medical condition indicates it. I think that's wrong when the patient does not give informed consent. So the question is, can an 8 year-old girl give what is legitimately informed consent? Can she be qualified to balance beauty pageantry aspirations with lifelong consequences of partial facial paralysis?
"A child is not an adult, a child cannot make that decision on their own. So I just feel like that is not an appropriate thing for a mother to do for a small child," said Renita Revill, executive director of the Miss Utah Scholarship Pageant, a program that places girls with older contestants and together they perform service projects. (Desert News)
Yet any general way of separating an adult from a child is somewhat arbitrary. We don't all instantly become adults when we reach a certain age.