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Over an eight year span this site said Hello to a half-million visitors. Last year’s traffic increased dramatically as the same worries we’ve expressed countless times when it comes to professional young performers began to manifest themselves in utterly innocent reality show children whose parents, for fame, for money, perhaps for validation, literally put them on fame’s railroad tracks with no idea that the Super Chief was bearing down on them. 100,000 visitors arrived here last year, most of them driven by an anxiety that had no name, people who instinctively shared our concern as the widely broadcast meltdowns of reality show families bought and paid for by arrogant networks that would have us believe that the uncompensated children on their artificially contrived reality shows live in a bubble world and will be untouched by their notoriety. We know better, and so do you. Too many parents don’t understand that industry people and their hirelings don’t mind earning dirty money. Our concern is the mess they leave behind in the lives of both the children they exploit on camera and the children who watch their mindless product.
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 "A Minor Consideration" is a non-profit, tax-deductible foundation formed to give guidance and support to young performers, Past, Present and Future. Child Stars must pick their parents with care. Family Education is the key ingredient to a productive future. The members of AMC are always "on call" to assist parents and their professional children on a 'No Cost basis.' By providing a strong emphasis on education and character development, plus helping to preserve the money these children generate, the members of AMC are always available to help with the tricky Transition issues that for many kid stars prove to be so troubling. We've "been there, done that." Our lessons were earned, not imagined. TO DONATE, CLICK HERE. THANKS.
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Current News
The Assault on Family Values
Publicizing, promoting and featuring the worst of this nation's stage parents has become an epidemic in our media. From "Dance Moms" to Octo-Mom, they can be seen everywhere...nearly always without critical comment. I have written that "In the absence of Shame, all conduct becomes acceptable," and that's our problem. Shame has been discarded in our Society. How many careers have begun with a sex tape? Not good...more>>
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Joint National Board Meeting For Newly Merged SAG-AFTRA
Tonight, 5/7/12, is the first Joint National Board Meeting of the newly merged SAG-AFTRA theatrical union. This promises to be a landmark meeting…a historical 1st.
In this world of corporate consolidation it was inevitable that the theatrical unions would, at last, join forces to deal with the reality that there are only 7 “employers” worldwide.
Media conglomerates are now a fact of life. We call these Seven “the Octopus.”
When you realize that the very first thing an employer seeks to do is lower “labor costs” it won’t be long until you face the fact that these “employers” will happily leap over imaginary boundaries to take advantage of more “favorable” employment standards.
Throw in “production incentives” based on taking advantage of a population bases’ reasonable desire to appear more “attractive” to potential employers by offering tax breaks and you have a recipe for abuse…and when it comes to working children these “trends” ... more>>
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