Beyazıt Şenbük – ISTANBUL
Influencer parents, usually mothers, using their children as advertising material violate their children’s personal space, a specialist developmental psychologist has said.
“Advertising on social media is now, in the digitalized age, an accepted line of business,” says Irmak Kerimoğlu, adding that however, a 6-year-old child is not qualified to give consent, both legally and psychologically.
We recommend not to share images of children on digital media as no one can know whether the child will want to be remembered with such a photograph in the future, Kerimoğlu said. “In other words, these parents are interfering in their child’s future.”
“Sharing the children’s image, even by the parents, violates their personal space,” she said.
Underlining that children learn by observing their parents, Kerimoğlu said,…
