Rachel Mason - “An Update on Our Family” & Ethics of Family Vlogging | The Daily Show

No it can’t be done ethically.

You can’t compare children of family vloggers with child actors. Child actors have limited work hours and protections. Children of vloggers have no escape and no guaranteed protections or down time. They aren’t playing a role… they are having their own world exposed to the world.

This hits hard after the Ruby Franke / Jodi Hildebrandt abuse scandal.

It's one thing to film your family for sentimental value... it's a whole other thing when your filming them for money.

Why is it so complicated to share family photos/vidoes to a small private group, not share publicly?? It feels like intentional ignorance to this option. Its great to be proud of your kids and want to share with others, but sharing with a private set of friends/family/etc is hugely difference to "sharing" publicly and making a spectacle and show of your life. That's a much more complicated situation and prone to exploitation (even unintentionally or naively)

Just finished the series - it was appalling, fascinating, and done in a very balanced way. Hannah Cho provided a unique perspective, going from a serious fan to someone who lived through the downfall of the Stauffers and what she learned. The comment from Cho where she admitted that she could imagine the adoption of Huxley may have at least partially been done for attention and profit was really chilling. I can highly recommend this series - but a warning in advance, it is very upsetting.

Family vloggers..argh! The lazy parents that exploit their children for wealth! Totally disgusting! Read Shari Franke’s book - the first of the family vlogging family that aged out. Her book ‘The. House of my Mother’. She sums it up perfectly- there is no ethical or moral family vlogger parent. She GREW UP IN THAT ATMOSPHERE!!

I'm so grateful this is being discussed!!

I LOVED LivingRosa and they ended their vlog about a year-a year and a half ago ago, which was heartbreaking. But...yeah, I think that Atlantic article about "sharenting" got a lot of people to re-consider the ethics of it.

I never knew about family vlogging.....boy, learned something different. I would like to know how many people knew about this before....I know I use youtube for a lot of other types of content - such as the Daily Show, but also huge fan of classic films and watch a ton of that here.