We already have labor laws preventing children from working, and the levels of child abuse in Hollywood has been outright disgusting anyhow. My vote is no. I don't care if you can't produce your nickelodeon show, make a cartoon.
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82 sats \ 11 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8 Mar
Not only should they be allowed to be actors, they should be allowed to work in factories too :)
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42 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Mar
I was going to go this direction as well.
The right way to regulate this stuff is very interesting to grapple with, though.
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41 sats \ 8 replies \ @Aardvark OP 8 Mar
Regulations aside. Social pressure, shame the parents. I just think it's a gross practice. Legislation is an issue always.
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42 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Mar
This is what I mean by interesting. If shame is attached to the practice, then only shameless parents will do it and we have an adverse selection problem.
I don't think it should be illegal, because it's easy enough to imagine situations where it's perfectly fine.
That probably means the answer is some kind of extremely harsh punishments for the malfeasors.
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25 sats \ 6 replies \ @Aardvark OP 8 Mar
I'm not positive it's ever perfectly fine. In order to be in a show, you can't be a child actor, you have to be the best child actor.
Even the ones that aren't subjected to abuse at the hands of horrible people in Hollywood, don't traditionally have good lives.
Obviously you can legislate horrible parenting, but there's really not many great examples of child actors having fantastic lives.
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42 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 8 Mar
By the same token doing drugs (and all manner of other vices), tend to worsen people's lives.
I'd be surprised if the effect were as pronounced as you suggest. There are thousands of child actors, but we're only likely to hear about the cases that go disastrously wrong.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 8 Mar
Small hands make tight stitches
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @flat24 9 Mar
Totally Against...
when you immerse children in those dynamics of work pressure (acting, song, sports) you think that you are doing something good for them, but in reality we are taking childhood when we do this.
Children are only children, and they should only have the responsibility of playing and learning.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 9 Mar
I agree completely.
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