The abundant risks and perverse incentives of the family-vlogging industry have inspired some well-meaning legislation—but it ...

There’s been a lot of talk about how helpless parents are to keep their children off the internet. What happens when the parents are the ones putting them there?

Unlike child actors who are protected by well-established labor laws such as California’s Coogan Law, which mandates a portion of a child’s earnings be placed in trust or Pennsylvania’s Child Labor ...

Social media platforms today are bursting with countless videos of children taking their first steps, speaking their first words, going on their first dates, and even having their first periods.

(TNS) — A couple of years ago, Alisa Jno-Charles saw her now 9-year-old daughter watching a YouTube video of several children and their swift ninja moves. The video was from Ninja Kidz TV, a YouTube ...

If you purchase a product through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. A “kidfluencer” is an agonized portmanteau of “kid” and “influencer,” which, though these two words do not quite fit ...

Alyson Stoner, former Disney star from the Toledo area, speaks to reporters about the need for a law to protect kid influencers on social media on January 9, 2024 There are laws in Ohio to protect the ...

Opening Shot: A producer asks Lexi McClure, who’s about 8, how long she’s been doing videos with her family. After a bit of counting, she says, “Seven and a half years.” The Gist: The first episode ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Arizona lawmakers are moving to ensure that child social media stars receive a share of the money their content generates, as a ...

LOS ANGELES -- What happens when your toddler is the biggest earner in the family and millions of people are watching? A new docuseries from ABC News Studios is pulling back the curtain on the real ...

What's it really like to create family content? We find out the good, the bad and the ugly in ABC News Studios' new project, "Born to be Viral: The Real Lives of Kidfluencers." The series follows the ...