#child exploitation

[froody]

I saw a slideshow about which states in the U.S. allow child marriage and the comments were like “Yes but that’s with parental permission.” as though that somehow makes it better. The institution of child marriage throughout history has generally been precipitated by parents selling their children for higher social standing, financial gain or simply because they no longer want to be responsible for them. It was not a phenomenon caused by loved children being stolen off the street in broad daylight.

As someone from a rural area in the south, almost everyone has at least one female family member who was a child bride. Usually the story is that girl’s parents said “You’re 14, that 30 year old who is perversely interested in you has a good job and will be a good provider. We approve of you marrying him because we can’t be arsed to care about you and a woman’s worth is only as a mother and wife.”

This is still happening to this day in fundamentalist religious communities through the U.S. where a girl’s worth is often based on how chaste and ‘innocent’ she seems, older women seen as more worldly and impure by virtue of being more wise. So many fundies get married at 17, 18, 19 or 20 and their parents would probably marry them off at a younger age if they could. And sometimes they still do.

#child abuse #child exploitation #child marriage #it’s often the same thing with trafficking scenarios #misogyny

[liberalsarecool]

I wonder what benefits they are going to offer these teenagers? Health care?

You know the answer. Nothing. #IowaSenate

Cue the High School dropout explosion.

#iowa senate #child exploitation

[socialjusticeinamerica]

#republican hypocrisy #republican assholes #abortion #reproductive freedom #the nra is a terrorist organization #gun violence #child exploitation #labor deregulation

[alwaysbewoke]

i guess we're starting to see why the gop want to outlaw abortion smfh

#politics #gop #child labor #child labor laws #conservative fuckery #captialism #florida #republicans #smfh #child protections #GOP florida #child rights #child welfare #child labor GOP #child protection rollback #florida politics #child safety #GOP policy #child exploitation #labor regulations #GOP agenda #child welfare rollback #child labor debate #florida legislation #GOP priorities

[furiousgoldfish]

abusive parents: Children need to work! In order to have work habits! I'm just making sure they're developing good work habits!

the actual 'habits' being taught: work being thrown at children with no announcement or schedule, being yelled at for not doing something they had no idea needed to be done, endless punishments if the work is refused or even rescheduled, being ordered around with no nuance for your own schedule, human needs, illnesses or school responsibilities; being pushed into labour with no clear instructions and severe punishments if you get it wrong, having to predict when someone will want something to be done or risk contempt, being told you're lazy, worthless and a waste of space regardless of how much work you do, never getting any rewards or acknowledgment for completing all of the work, exposure to criticism, insults, and overall horrid working conditions with no right to complain or refuse to do it, being taught that you're worth nothing unless you can prove your worth in endless free labour, perfect setup to be maximally exploited by every boss and manager in your future life because you've been taught to fear confrontation more than death

#abuse excuses #no work habits just constant fear #child exploitation #child labor #abusive parents #toxic parents #using children for labour #pretending this is good for children #liars

[onlytiktoks]

#tiktok #influencer #child labor #children #parenthood #parenting #parents #child exploitation #child endangerment #childhood

[tss-nonstop-nonsense]

"All entertainment workers should go on strike!"

"Family bloggers children should go on strike!"

Oh boy I wish I could!

Did you know that even if I went on 'strike', parents are still legally allowed to force their kids to work 24/7 for videos on youtube without paying them a cent?

Did you know that there's no current union for child youtubers, even though there's one for regular youtubers and of course, sagaftra for TV and movie actors?

Did you know there's not even a current support group for child youtubers?

Did you know there's one single law in the USA (illinois) working to protect child influencers by giving them half of the profit, even though to qualify you have to reach an impossible average of 10 cents per view?

I'm not sure what I'm saying with this but pretty much it sure would be nice if I had the right (a right which is given to the people by the laws of the United States) to protect myself and my youtube friends under a union.

Can any politicians get to work on that one?

#child acting #kidfluencers #important #child exploitation #sag aftra #wga strike #sag strike #strike #unions #union #family vloggers

[froody]

The unfortunate truth of the matter is that while these conservative keyboard warriors go to bat to #saveourchildren by making post after post on a global child sex trafficking conspiracy run by the dems, how all members of the LGBTQ are groomers who need to groom the next generation into joining their cult and spending every waking moment of their life arguing online, their own children are no safer. Upstairs their 13 year old daughter is taking advantage of the increased freedom now that their parents are preoccupied, spending every waking moment talking to their online “boyfriend”, a crusty 27 year old white cishet man from down the street who tells them what they want to hear, what they don’t hear from their parents. Their boyfriend is telling them to sneak out, to come link up, come meet a couple of his friends. The sound of their child’s cautious footsteps on the stairs snd on her way out the door are drowned out by the Qanon YouTube video they’re watching on full volume in the living room.

#child exploitation #grooming

[acedisneyprincess]

This is a new low for Disney's music marketing team and executives.

Freya Skye's cover of Who Says was released on tiktok about a week ago, which is a week after Jojo Siva released her cover of Karma.

If you don't know the drama there, the short of it is that Jojo did a lot to imply she wrote it, so when it came out that she just bought the rights to it, people were pissed.

Back to Freya, she was hyping Who Says up as a cover on instagram before the Jojo drama started, but when it came time for the actual release, her tiktoks referred to it as "her song" and "new song" instead of a cover, leading people to accuse her of trying to say it's an original song and not give credit to Selena Gomez.

Keeping in mind she's a Disney girl and knowing Disney's tight grip on their stars and their social media, there's no way she was in charge of making those videos or the captions. The social media team at Disney decided that the press and attention they'd get for making it look like Freya was trying to claim Who Says as an original was worth throwing this poor girl under the bus. After all, whether people are streaming Freya's version or Selena's, money's still going into Disney's pocket.

Oh, and they're doing it to Kylie Cantrall's cover of Boo'd Up now, too, even after there was so much backlash against Freya that they had to go back in and edit captions and remove the song from a video that said "my song" in the text.

These poor girls are being chewed up by Disney the same way their predecessors were, even in the wake of Quiet on Set and enhanced public scrutiny of children's entertainment companies. It's absolutely disgusting and I hope Freya and Kylie can get out and get on top now that Disney's actively trying to bomb their careers.

#freya skye #kylie cantrall #selena gomez #ella mai #child exploitation #hollywood records #disney #cover songs #op

[alwaysbewoke]

when you combine this with the efforts to extend retirement age to 70 and over, it's very clear that our politicians, but specifically gop conservatives, are hell-bent on sacrificing the population at the altar of capitalism. they want us to start working earlier and to work longer into our lives, all while not paying a living wage and raising the price of just about everything. it is the continuing evil of capitalism run amok.

#Youtube #child labor #labor protections #gop red states #child rights #child welfare #child labor laws #child protection rollback #child exploitation #child labor reform #gop laws #child advocacy #labor standards #gop agendas #child welfare rollback #child labor debate #workplace standards #child protection #child well-being #gop control #child labor policy

[furiousgoldfish]

One of the most hypocritical 'rules' of abusive families is that if you tell anyone outside the family, or even inside, something that makes your parents 'look bad', you're automatically betraying them. Like it's your job to keep their secrets and to protect them from 'looking bad to others' at any cost. They'll enforce this rule not only by warning you that 'what happens at home stays at home' but actively punishing you if you accidentally let something slip that you didn't even know wasn't normal to do to kids.

On the other hand, they can do whatever they fuck they want to you, and it's still not betrayal, in their own point of view. They can neglect you, fail to take care of you, ignore you, turn you into their emotional-support-child, have you do their part of work at home, have you responsible for more things than they themselves are, they can fail to teach you any life skills, fail to nurture your psychological health, fail to protect you from predators, fail to keep you safe completely, hell they can even get violent and knock you around and torture you for fun and entertainment, humiliate you as a joke and throw insults at you as if you were not a human being, and still it somehow doesn't count as betrayal!

And the thing is, all things on that list that they do to you are a betrayal! All of this means they've failed to provide a family to you, it all means you've been emotionally abandoned and forced to live as if you had no family at all, you had to earn your right to eat and sleep there, you had to raise yourself while enduring abuse, you had to deal with everything in life alone and fear your own lack of abilities to take care of yourself because nobody ever did that and nobody ever taught you how!

Telling others what happens at your home, however, is not a betrayal, it's simply repeating your experience to someone! If your family isn't abusive, this should be a normal and safe thing to do, even with uncomfortable and weird situation, it would not make a family member look abusive if they weren't actually actively abusing you.

You have not betrayed anyone if you speak your truth. The rules of 'everything must go in our favour and nothing in yours' are not real. That is not what family does. If this is what your family demanded of you, they weren't a family to you. Family should be benefiting children, not the reverse! Children are not obliged to do anything to be a part of family! It should be your birthright.

We are not going to build up a world where children are supposed to be 'of good use' to their parents, rather than the parents doing everything they possibly can to raise a happy, valued and healthy child. If you ended up miserable, guilty, traumatized, abandoned, neglected, unwanted, feeling worthless and like something about you is unlovable or irredeemable - they betrayed you. They hurt you when you were the most vulnerable and most in need of safety and protection. You do not owe them anything. And you do not have to forgive them.

#abusive parents #abusive families #child abuse #child neglect #psychological abuse #double standards #hypocrisy #abusive rules #taking advantage of children #failing to raise healthy children #exploiting children #child exploitation #parentification

[ahundredhundredheartbeats]

Children in crisis do not exist to be a resource for you to build a family if you can’t or don’t want to have biological children but you still want to be a parent.

Children in crisis do not exist to heal your infertility trauma.

Children in crisis do not exist to heal you in any way.

Children in crisis do not exist to be a solution to your infertility.

Children in crisis do not exist to be your backup plan if you can’t have biological children.

Wanting a child does not entitle you to having one.

WANTING A CHILD DOES NOT ENTITLE YOU TO HAVING ONE.

If you are not adopting solely to help a child in crisis, if you are doing it because you want a child, you are not helping a child, you are just helping yourself.

And IF you want to help a child in crisis, it is better for them if you do not sever their legal relationship to their biological family by adopting them. You can hold guardianship and provide a loving, safe, secure home for them without adopting, and this is by far better for the wellbeing of the child.

Choosing adoption over guardianship because you don’t want to “deal with” the biological family is selfish and wrong, and it causes objective permanent harm to the child you claim to want to “help.”

The “blank slate” theory is a myth.

Adoption is trauma. Yes, even for newborns.

Separation from the birthing parent and the biological family is trauma. Yes, even for newborns.

Severing all ties to biological family is trauma. Yes, even for newborns.

Removing a child from their culture and heritage causes harm, and in the case of white people taking children of color from their communities, it's perpetuating the progress of colonialism and genocide.

Taking responsibility for a child in crisis means prioritizing their trauma care and their wellbeing above all else.

It is demonstrably true that guardianship and kinship care are less traumatic to a child than severing all ties to biological family through legal adoption.

If you've never heard of guardianship or kinship care, you are not knowledgeable enough to even consider being able to care for a child in crisis.

The adoption industry is a for-profit, multi-billion-dollar industry with a horrific history of human trafficking, eugenicist ideology, and straight-up baby stealing. These issues have not been sufficiently addressed in legislation and regulations, and the industry continues to exploit, violate, and traumatize untold numbers of children every day.

The adoption industry prioritizes the wants of the adopting parents over the wellbeing of the child.

Adoption is not the beautiful, romanticized method of family-building that the dominant culture makes it out to be.

Children are not property to be passed around for the pleasure of adults. Children are human beings with human rights. Children have a right to know who they are and where they biologically come from. Children have a right to maintain connections with their biological family, their culture, and their heritage. Adoption always interrupts the natural relationships inherent to these rights.

#original #adoption industry #adoption #human trafficking #trauma informed #child abuse #child exploitation

[smashing-yng-man]

#trump and epstein #donald trump #jeffrey epstein #sick fuck #child abuse #child exploitation #2024 presidential election #us politics #politics

[treemaidengeek]

look. I just need y'all to come down this rabbit hole with me. Caroline Easom has a whole series of one-woman-play tiktoks about the dark side of family vlogging and it now owns part of my brain. Because of her series, she was interviewed by ABC about changes proposed to Ohio child labor law . There are additional Sandwich Family videos among her Facebook reels (I'm sure on tiktok as well but I don't have an account). Here's most of the videos in chronological order: (cw child exploitation, psychological/emotional abuse, gaslighting)

& a screenshot from the video (not included in the compilation) in which she diagrams the family's kids with real & stage names & their video shticks:

I have never been so invested in Facebook reels in my life please send help

#family vlogging #caroline easom #child exploitation #child labor #Youtube