Electric Show: Wasted youth
This article about child actors becoming stereotyped in certain roles and developing personality problems includes a mention of a 1998 Wayne State study of 74 child starts. Researchers found that child performers generally handle the stresses of life as well as everyone else. The study found that 75 percent of the young actors develop normal lives and have normal relationships with their parents. However one in four had abused drugs and two in five had abused alcohol.