http://www.babble.com.au/2009/01/28/slumdog-millionaires-child-actors-still-living-in-squalor/ The magazine for a new generation of parents Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:08:22 +1100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.babble.com.au/2009/01/28/slumdog-millionaires-child-actors-still-living-in-squalor/comment-page-1/#comment-940 Toni Casala Wed, 28 Jan 2009 07:15:36 +0000 http://www.babble.com.au/?p=4771#comment-940 Let's face it, when it comes to child welfare . . . it takes a village to take responsibility. Yes, their parents should have fought harder to get a better deal, Yes, the producers should have seen to it that the children had a fair contract but most of all, "Bollywood", which has grown into one of the biggest . . if not THE BIGGEST film production center in the world should enact laws that protect child actors, require mandatory blocked trust accounts and limit working hours and conditions. I watched this film from many points of view. As a movie lover and film buff, I loved it. As a parent, I was mortified. As president of www.ChildrenInFilm.com, I was grappling to understand how they achieved many of those shots without jeopardizing the health, safety and welfare of the children involved. It was just a matter of time before stories like this started to emerge about this film. Let’s face it, when it comes to child welfare . . . it takes a village to take responsibility. Yes, their parents should have fought harder to get a better deal, Yes, the producers should have seen to it that the children had a fair contract but most of all, “Bollywood”, which has grown into one of the biggest . . if not THE BIGGEST film production center in the world should enact laws that protect child actors, require mandatory blocked trust accounts and limit working hours and conditions. I watched this film from many points of view. As a movie lover and film buff, I loved it. As a parent, I was mortified. As president of http://www.ChildrenInFilm.com, I was grappling to understand how they achieved many of those shots without jeopardizing the health, safety and welfare of the children involved. It was just a matter of time before stories like this started to emerge about this film.

]]> http://www.babble.com.au/2009/01/28/slumdog-millionaires-child-actors-still-living-in-squalor/comment-page-1/#comment-938 Serena Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:20:37 +0000 http://www.babble.com.au/?p=4771#comment-938 The children are the responsibility of their parents, who should have seen to it that they got a better deal before signing on to do the film. The children are the responsibility of their parents, who should have seen to it that they got a better deal before signing on to do the film.

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