When the 996 of adults was discussed in a boiling day, the issue of the rights and interests of child models also became the focus of public opinion. A video of a child model girl being kicked by her mother brought this strange child model industry to the center of the public opinion field, and there are bitter stories behind the original glamorous child models, and the myth of "one year can buy a house" in the spotlight, but I can't bear to look closely.
Netizens angrily denounced this as treating children as "cash cows". The mother of the party involved in the incident issued an apology statement: it is too big to teach the action, there is no intention of child abuse, in an interview, said that she reflected on this, "because of the temper, when the child is disobedient, he will habitually yell at her, and sometimes he will do it..."
Although the complaints of parents "roaring baby" and "spitting fire" during online tutoring homework have long become a national topic, it is difficult for the public to tolerate the mother as an "agent" to yell at the fairy tale child who sells the labor force - the smell of money has diluted the family affection, and the "everything is for your own good" rhetoric seems so pale and weak at this time.
When the mother becomes an "agent" and the child becomes an "artist", at a young age, she must make a model and make a smiley face according to the requirements of Party A. Many costume shoots are still out of season, which means that children wear winter clothes in the summer, summer clothes in the winter, and sometimes late at night. Money and rewards intervene prematurely in a child's life, and the pompous Vanity Fair strikes into a child's childhood... Not every parent has a sinister intention, and some may be out of consideration for the purpose of cultivating their children's abilities to let their children participate in model training. But how to avoid parent-child alienation? How to avoid the experience of being a model in childhood and becoming the trigger for breaking with the original family after many years?
China's Labor Law clearly stipulates that the use of child labor under the age of 16 is prohibited, and the Advertising Law also clearly stipulates that minors are prohibited from advertising endorsements. The entire child model industry seems to be wandering in the gray area of the law.
Zhejiang Zhili Town, known as the "Capital of Children's Clothing in China", was also caught up in the cusp of public opinion because of this incident. There is a huge demand for children's clothing models in the local area, and many children who participate in child model training come from families engaged in the children's clothing industry. At present, the town of Zhili has conducted a mapping of child models who have participated in performances, filmed or are being trained at training institutions. The local government promised to intervene if the child was "found to be disgusted with the filming" during the home visit.
At present, China does not have relevant norms and professional self-discipline charters for the child model industry, but the bottom line of the law is there, and public order and good customs are also there. If parents force children to act as models for a long time and affect their studies and physical and mental health, at this time, government functional departments, schools, and youth insurance organizations should intervene in a timely manner; if beating child models constitutes domestic violence prohibited by the Anti-Domestic Violence Law, the public security organs and other relevant law enforcement departments should also intervene.
The attitude of a society towards children reflects the water level of its civilization. This kicking incident has a certain degree of accident, but even if the child model industry is still a relatively small group, it should arouse the high attention of the whole society and tighten the thin red line for the protection of minors.
As the poet Gibran said: Your children are not your own children, they are beside you, but they do not belong to you. Don't bring your child too early into vanity fair for adults.