This is essentially an unregulated industry. There are not comprehensive, meaningful, enforced legal requirements for parents to get any sort of buy in from their children. Because we don't have regulation, parents have to really examine their own ethical framework. This is still the Wild West, but there are some heartening trends. For instance, there has been some great youth led activism out of Washington state where a wonderful youth activist was trying to pass a version of these child performer laws.
Parents are turning their kids into influencers on social media. What could go wrong?
This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram, who also edited.
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