15 Offensive Halloween Costumes For Kids You Should Never Consider

Anything with black face is always offensive. Many iterations of this costume come with a dark-colored stocking mask for the baby to wear so his or her skin will look black like Mr. T's.

A man who makes a living selling women's bodies should never been celebrated. Yet you can purchase or DIY Baby Pimp costumes that attempt to make a joke about this issue.

The reality of homelessness is not something to mock. Having a child dress like someone who has no place to live but on the streets is not OK.

This was one of the most shocking costumes I saw online. It features a small child dressed to look like Hitler with armband and mustache. No one should ever dress as a man who was responsible for the senseless deaths of 11 million people during the Holocaust, according to the site for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Dressing like one of a dozen or so women who were kept by one man isn't a good message for any to send to any child, least of all a young girl. Considered sex slaves to sultans, harem girls didn't even want to dress like harem girls.

The sight of a child holding a gun is all too real and frightening these days. Dressing them like tiny criminals with weapons is offensive, especially to those who have lost someone to gun violence.

This is the type of insensitivity for transgender people that makes it hard to make advancements for acceptance and teaches intolerance.

Anytime someone who dresses (in the costume sense) as someone of another ethnicity than them, it is inappropriate. As with any for of cultural appropriation, it is unacceptable to co-opt the experieince of a race for your own enjoyment.

We respect and appreciate the women and men who serve our country in the military, even if we don't always agree with policies and practices. However, a confederate soldier costume for kids drudges up old notions of a movement that wanted to keep others oppressed.

When I saw the picture of a boy dressed as a terrorist with fake bombs strapped to his chest, I was more than angry. This is beyond offensive and is attempting to poke fun at a devastating act.

This is a riff on a military costume for girls, where the bottom half of the uniform is a skirt. Our girls are more than flirts and our female soldiers deserve more respect.

Oversized sombreros and huge mustaches turn Mexican culture into a caricature. It's not meant to be authentic and it looks cartoonish.

Perhaps before tons of women starting coming forward about his alleged sexual assault, dressing up as Bill Cosby might have been cute for a kid. But now that women are alleging what happened out of the public eye, it's just plain offensive.

This costume was a sibling team or shark and surfer Bethany Hamilton who lost her arm due to a shark bite. Although Bethany has never let the loss of a limb stop her from being a badass, the overall idea for this kids' costume duo is just wrong. After all, do you really want your child to think it's OK to mock someone with a physical disability?

Yet another group of women who are there for the pleasure of a man. These are offensive costumes for girls, because girls shouldn't see themselves as entertainment for men.