In ⛓️‍💥[Removed] on whether child modeling is exploitive, I made the comparison to child actors.

In it I half-facetiously said,
I don't think that broadcasting photos of children is exploitive by nature. One could look at the history of Hollywood and "Stage Mothers" and make a compelling argument for an outright ban. Heck, just as audiences got used to Elizabethan boy-actors playing women or the Onnagata of Kabuki; they might get used to alternates for children if there were such a ban. But I can't see singling out amateur "child models" from any other form of depiction which commerce and culture depend upon but which don't contain substantially different content from that which is cited in the standard objections.

Part of me can picture a day in which diminutive people like those who sing child roles on Broadway will be used in films too.

Dante