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This isn't true. It's rare, but there are some terrific child actors. Watch the original IT to note just how good Seth Green and Emily Perkins are. Dakota Fanning and her sister. Haley Joel Osment felt very natural in The Sixth Sense. Brooke Shields in Alice, Sweet Alice was more in control of her performance than most adults.

Anyway, kids in movies and television shows aren't going away. We have to make sure they are well-treated.

Watch the audition for the kid in ET and tell me kids can't ever be good actors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tA5giyG8E7g

No kids in TV/film would leave a very odd gap in the stories we can tell.

For each their own I guess, I hated ET even when I was a kid.

You don't have to like the movie, but it's hard to argue the kid in that video can't act.

I find that children rarely have much range, but they can be cast inline with their natural inclinations or personality. There's a number of tv shows where the kid actors get worse over time, as they're asked to do more kinds of storytelling (stranger things is a good example).