Yeah, if any of my friends ever have their kids try out for movies or commercials, I would ask them point blank "why do you want your kid to be raped?". Because unless they are going to be the kind of parent that's literally always with their child no matter what, it is a non insignificant possibility. An inevitability, even.
Also, why do it in the first place? A 5-year-old's need to perform in front of people and get attention can be fulfilled in ways that don't end with them being raped by producers, get groomed into having no self-worth or hangups about debasing themselves for money, get perverted stalkers who call themselves fans and fantasize about them online ("shippers"), lost privacy for life, getting addicted to meaningless, hedonistic luxury, develop mental health issues, get horrific "beauty" treatments done, etc.
Like what's wrong with small children performing on a small scale, things appropriate for their age (no sexual stuff, no horror, no psychologically fucked things, etc.), with other kids, in ways that don't impede on normal kid life?
Recently we had a child actor/performer on TV here. Now we are a small country, but she somehow ended up performing in some things alongside worldwide actors like Luke Evans, I think.
The kid doesn't fucking sound like a child. She sounds like a mini 30-something career woman and she is pre-puberty.
Some parents want to live vicariously through their children. And there probably are some who genuinely just want their kids set up well financially before they grow up and honestly don't know how pervasive this issue is.
Yeah, if any of my friends ever have their kids try out for movies or commercials, I would ask them point blank "why do you want your kid to be raped?". Because unless they are going to be the kind of parent that's literally always with their child no matter what, it is a non insignificant possibility. An inevitability, even.
Also, why do it in the first place? A 5-year-old's need to perform in front of people and get attention can be fulfilled in ways that don't end with them being raped by producers, get groomed into having no self-worth or hangups about debasing themselves for money, get perverted stalkers who call themselves fans and fantasize about them online ("shippers"), lost privacy for life, getting addicted to meaningless, hedonistic luxury, develop mental health issues, get horrific "beauty" treatments done, etc.
Like what's wrong with small children performing on a small scale, things appropriate for their age (no sexual stuff, no horror, no psychologically fucked things, etc.), with other kids, in ways that don't impede on normal kid life?
Recently we had a child actor/performer on TV here. Now we are a small country, but she somehow ended up performing in some things alongside worldwide actors like Luke Evans, I think.
The kid doesn't fucking sound like a child. She sounds like a mini 30-something career woman and she is pre-puberty.
Money. Narcissism.
Because they're empty, hollow people who rely on external validation rather than self-confidence?
Some parents want to live vicariously through their children. And there probably are some who genuinely just want their kids set up well financially before they grow up and honestly don't know how pervasive this issue is.