I’m not necessarily saying I believe it is or isn’t, but it seems that if you were to repeatedly and intentionally elicit that reaction, outside the context of filming, for no other reason that personal entertainment, then it might at least come close to being child abuse, depending on how you go about it (hence the question).
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My understanding (and I may be wrong) is that a parent takes a toy or food treat away and stands just off camera with it. Or sometimes just handing the child over to an actor is enough to provoke crying. As others have noted, it’s really easy to get a tired child to cry, too. There are some sort of child welfare people on set to see that circumstances don’t veer into ‘abuse’.
That being said, I couldn’t bear to make my child cry on purpose for any amount of money. But that’s just me.
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