Deer Little: Child stars in crisis: Divorcing one's parents can lead to success, or disaster

Child stars in crisis: Divorcing one's parents can lead to success, or disaster

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LOS ANGELES – Fourteen-year-old “Modern Family” star Ariel Winter is the latest child star to seek legal emancipation from a parent amid allegations of emotional abuse. But becoming an “adult”– complete with adult responsibilities such as entering into legally binding contracts, taking out credit cards and making healthcare decisions – when as young as 14, isn’t exactly easy. Melissa Francis, a child star on the classic “Little House on the Prairie,” and now a journalist for the Fox Business Network, knows first-hand the painful process of heading to the court to seek emancipation. “My mom had a power over me, over all of us, for a long time.

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Melissa Francis

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Relevance: 0.902492

Sentiment	Quote
-0.254471	“My mom had a power over me, over all of us, for a long time. I was hostage to her moods, her violence, her praise, her favor, all doled out in random doses and with confusing inconsistency, which had been designed to control me, training me to crave her attention like a starving dog,” Francis told ...
-0.129481	“My mom had a power over me, over all of us, for a long time. I was hostage to her moods, her violence, her praise, her favor, all doled out in random doses and with confusing inconsistency, which had been designed to control me, training me to crave her attention like a starving dog,” Francis told FOX411’s Pop Tarts column. “I became a master of managing my mother’s moods. I would save pieces of good news, a good grade, a bit of gossip, to distract her when the tension was building. It was exhausting and ultimately made me so resentful.”
0	Francis, who continued acting regularly after "Little House" ...
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.383952 Mean: -0.127984 Standard Deviation: 1

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Ariel Winter

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Edward Furlong

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Macaulay Culkin

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Corey Feldman

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Drew Barrymore

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Lubov Stark

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-0.0457733	“unscrupulous managers will sometimes pressure a minor to seek emancipation if the minor's parents won't agree to sign the management agreement so that the minor will then have contractual capacity to sign,” and celebrity attorney Lubov Stark said ...
-0.03563	“unscrupulous managers will sometimes pressure a minor to seek emancipation if the minor's parents won't agree to sign the management agreement so that the minor will then have contractual capacity to sign,” and celebrity attorney Lubov Stark said that in most cases, the young star seeks emancipation “to protect the assets they have acquired, are trying to escape an unstable home life that is interfering with their career or they are seeking to avoid child labor laws which prevent them from working long hours.”
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Chrisoula Workman

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Rachel Miner

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Rachael Bella

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David Gurwin

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Michelle Williams

Overall Sentiment: 0.254331

Relevance: 0.38212

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Eliza Dushku

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Alicia Silvertone

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Relevance: 0.326989

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Drug: heroin

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Drug: Alprazolam

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Drug: Clonazepam

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Organization: Fox Business Network

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Organization: BizParentz Foundation

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Company: Google

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Company: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney

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City: Hollywood

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City: LOS ANGELES