How do you intentionally make a young child actor (toddler, infant) cry and scream without it being considered some sort of child abuse?

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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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For young children, they often aren’t actually crying for the scene. You might see one shot of an unhappy face, but then for most of the scene they would be turned away from the camera. The sound of them crying is added in like any other sound effect. Otherwise it would be pretty difficult to catch the other actors’ dialogue over the screaming child!

The unhappy face shot would be fairly easy for young children as well – crying is how they communicate, so just wait for baby to get hungry, cry, quick camera roll then feed him/her.