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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wasn’t this the parents’ responsibility? Not a shock there is overlap between parents who put their children’s real lives on TV and parents who steal from their kids. [/quote] That's the problem with shows like this that feature children -- adults can consent to this kind of thing in an informed way, kids can't. They are at the mercy of their (often? always?) selfish-at-best parents. So these shows are, arguably anyway, inherently exploitive when it comes to minors. Given the ubiquity of reality tv at this point, society should step in somehow and require that children who participate in these shows each have their own advocate to negotiate terms on their behalf; specifically: someone who 1) is not a parent or any other adult participating in the project, and 2) has no interest, financial or otherwise, in the show. [/quote]
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