Through the years, there have been many issues regarding such career that still resurface from time to time. Most of these revolve around money, the psychological effects of the work on children and how such career affects their childhood in general.
1. There have been many talks about the issues regarding money. Who will handle the child actor’ s earnings? Their guardians are the rightful ones to keep and save them. But unfortunately, there have been many incidents wherein a child’ s actor money had gone to waste because of mishandling. This may not be felt by the child on their younger years. But as they grow old and learn to reflect on everything, they will question what happened to the money that they have worked so hard for.
This was the inspiration for the original Coogan Law. Based on the facts that happened to a former child star who earned millions at a young age, Jackie Coogan, this law was enacted in California in 1939. It states that a portion of the child actor ' s earnings must be preserved in a blocked trust or a savings account especially made for such purpose.
2. Child actors are believed to lose a very big part of their childhood by working and earning at such a young age. Although productions nowadays allow them time to study and play while on the set, this cannot alter the experiences that a kid will get from having a normal life, away from the light, the cameras and the directors yelling, action.
They experience the pressure to perform, to deliver according to what ' s
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