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The history of psychological effects on child actors and children of "blogger moms" indicates there should be atleast some ethical concerns. Just because paren
by shkkmo 5y ago
The history of psychological effects on child actors and children of "blogger moms" indicates there should be atleast some ethical concerns.
Just because parents consent doesn't mean that parents are looking out for their children or understand what the effects of fame as a young child will be.
I don't have cut and dried answers here, but I don't think you can pretend that there aren't ethical concerns with media protrayal of young children that need atleast some consideration.
Edit: Personally, I think that if a photograph of a naked baby was important to this piece of art, the ethical solution would have been to keep the baby's identity anonymous (at least until he was 18). That would have done a lot to balance the ethics here, especially as the identity of the baby shouldn't matter.