Training or Abuse?

But Jensen says the numbers are against most kids. For minor or supporting roles on pilots, Jensen can easily audition 500 to 600 children — seeing one kid every two to five minutes. "You put out a casting call, you need a 7-year-old with red hair, one blue eye and one brown eye, and there are hundreds of kids in the waiting room in 10 minutes," says Marc Warren, Jensen's colleague, who wrote for the Disney TV show "That's So Raven."

After reading this New York Times Magazine article on classes for child actors, I wasn’t sure if it was an innovative career program or a form of child abuse.