Thursday, April 04, 2024

Forced exposure

It's one thing to overshare about yourself publicly online (you are at least in control of the initial decision to post), but it's quite another to overshare about your children - especially when you're doing so for cash.

Cosmopolitan's reports on the phenomenon of "sharenting" are both eye-opening and horrifying. They shine a suitably harsh spotlight on the parents who appear to have no scruples about commodifying their kids, treating them as nothing more than manipulable mini-influencers, pliable pawns in a toxic get-rich-quick marketing scheme. Child labour is still alive and well, it seems.

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