Perhaps, have you ever heard of "nibbling on the little people"?
It refers to a group of people who are supposed to earn money to support their families, who use their children as "cash cows" to support their families on their income.
One of the most representative is probably the "child model"!
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Child model dream land - Zhejiang Weaving
"Fashion looks at Paris, children's clothing looks at weaving."
Inori, everyone should have heard of this place to some extent.
Located in the eastern part of Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the children's clothing market here has been emerging since the 1990s and has expanded further with the development of e-commerce and logistics.
According to media releases, there are more than 10,000 children's clothing companies in weaving, and more than half of the children's clothing in China is produced here.
Stimulated by the children's clothing marketing market, a huge industrial chain (child models) is derived.
A box of sunglasses, a makeup bag, about 8 hours a day, 100 sets of dressups, an average daily salary of 4,000 yuan, can offset the monthly salary of some adults, and some even earn millions of dollars a year to support the whole family.
The temptation of high income has made many parents flock to weave "dreams" with their children, participate in child model training classes, and send "model cards" to manufacturers to accompany their children to shoot.
Behind the crazy "making rich"
"The pressure of the child model world is not at all inferior to the adult workplace pressure of 996 and 007."
This is an accepted fact for insiders, and many parents only see the superficial prosperity, but have not experienced the bitterness and bitterness of it, especially for children, who are both "beneficiaries" and "direct victims".
1. Affect the child's physical health
"This set of shots is too slow, you have to speed up, and you have to catch up with the next one when it is over, otherwise you will lose a thousand."
In the modeling industry, time is money, and the production rate is particularly important.
According to the head of a modeling company, many trained children, in fact, are really hard, working until eleven or twelve o'clock at night, yawning for days, parents still have to coax them to insist on it again, and then sleep after shooting!
Children who are in the growth and development period, long-term lack of sleep, the damage to the body is still quite large.
In addition, many times in order to catch up with the "new", often need to "shoot against the season", children wear down jackets in the hot sun, wear summer clothes in the winter, a shooting is a few hours, adults may not be able to stay up, let alone children.
2. Affect children's mental health
The golden age of child models is also a few years, under 160, under 6 years old, is more popular in the market.
Among them, many of them began to receive business orders at the age of 3, and became "old cadres" at the age of 6, and in order to shoot, they did not hesitate to take leave or even children who did not go to school.
As everyone knows, before the age of 6, it is the critical period for children to shape the three views, if they are exposed to the temptation of "Vanity Fair" too early, their psychology is often easily eroded by money, becoming impetuous and eager for success, and within three years they will become greasy and become slaves to money.
In addition, this line of appearance, weight, height and other requirements are also relatively high, some parents in order to meet the requirements of photographers and businesses, let the child lose weight, plastic surgery, these "materialization" labels attached to children, is not good for their mental health.
Don't over-"consume" your child
According to a survey conducted by the Social Consumption Center of China Youth Daily, it was found that there are more children participating in commercial activities in the current society, and there is a phenomenon of excessive consumption of children.
Not only the child model industry, but also child stars in the entertainment industry, the "small Internet celebrities" of various short video platforms, and the so-called "Avenue of Stars" have entered the so-called "Avenue of Stars", which is not the correct value orientation.
HBO has produced a documentary film, "Child Star", which examines the dark reality of the children's entertainment industry and the career of child stars through the narration of witnesses.
"I became a teen magazine, I became an idol, I hated these things, it was far beyond my comfort zone."
In the documentary, the child star who was hot at the beginning ended up in low spirits, out of control of emotions, and died suddenly, either "faintly red-faced and beautiful teenager" or "phoenix did not welcome nirvana day".
Star after star fell...
【Lucky Pregnancy Says】
Someone said, "A happy childhood heals a lifetime, and an unhappy childhood takes a lifetime to heal." "At the right age, do the right thing.
Children's childhood should not be packed in the "lens", let them release their nature, enjoy the joy under the blue sky and white clouds, and embrace every wind and sun, is this not what we adults really should do!