Rebuttal To Vanessa--> Should Child stars be held as Role Models?

In Vanessa's opening statement of the debate, Should Child Stars Be Held as Role Models for Audiences their age?, she argued that child stars are the influence to young children, therefore, they should be required to be role models.

The post repeatedly address the importance of fulfilling the expectations of the child stars' audience. I believe that we may be able to give expectations to child actors when they are on set and in the career of acting, but we may not give them expectations when they are off set and living their own lives. This is important because they can be less stressed. The audience shouldn't be the ones running the actors' lives. Although the behavior of actors' off set affect the audience as well, they are no longer in the career zone so even if they are acting bad, I believe they have the right to. I am not encouraging bad behaviors, it is that the actors can act however they want- bad or good in their lives. This is the freedom that everyone has (if they don't break the law).

Vanessa said: " She [Miley Cyrus] showed up in an issue of Vanity Fair, she dated men that were over the age of 18 while she was still a minor, her music videos are too provocative and she pole danced at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards. All this behavior is something that parents would not approve of their child viewing. As for Demi Lovato, she ended up going to rehab for cutting herself"

The children viewing Miley Cyrus' bad behaviors is possibly unavoidable, if we want to be fair to both the actor and the audience. Miley and the audience both are able to decide whether what she did was appropriate or bad. We must take into consideration that Miley is also a teen, she's at an age where she wouldn't think before she acts- a phrase that many teens go through because they're not mature yet. Miley can judge her own behavior and the audience too can be influenced in a good or bad way, on the way that they chose to view it, dependent on other factors of their lives as well that contributes.

Also, I think Demi Lovato's incident may be just an unfortunate event in her life. She has possibly messed up, so we should know that actors are under stress as well. Sometimes they don't think before they act, just like normal people. If we do not even allow them to mess up, they have no freedom to act freely.


This idea of no expectations for child actors is risky, but it is the only way to be fair to the actors and to the audience.