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I don’t disagree with you or deny the failure of personal responsibility in these cases. But in fairness, could you have turned down fame and millions of dollars as a teenager to work a $6/hr McJob with your peers?

I think the parents deserve the most blame. If I had a child who was somehow picked up by Hollywood as a star, I would insist that he live at home, away from Hollywood, at least until the age of majority, and would further insist that any money he made was put into an irrevocable trust that he (nor anyone else) could not access until at least age 25, with mayke $50k/year payouts as a reasonable salary until that age.

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I hear ya...and big time agree with you on the parents...

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I think the parents deserve the most blame. If I had a child who was somehow picked up by Hollywood as a star, I would insist that he live at home, away from Hollywood, at least until the age of majority, and would further insist that any money he made was put into an irrevocable trust that he (nor anyone else) could not access until at least age 25, with mayke $50k/year payouts as a reasonable salary until that age.

I think you are on to something. I went over to imdb.com and looked at his mini-biography. He was an only child and it said he was raised by his grandmother.