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The issue last flared up in 2007 when CBS aired the ill-conceived "Kid Nation" -- a show that followed 40 unsupervised kids while they tried to create a new society in a New Mexico ghost town. Update: I asked Dr. Andrea Bonior, licensed clinical ...

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Kid Nation" raises questions over whether child labor laws were violated. it.truveo.com

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I mean, I may watch Kid Nation, (CBS’s new reality show that has children fending for themselves in a ghost town in New Mexico) but letting my child live it is another matter entirely. Yet after I finished reading The Case Against ...

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About a year ago, in response to CBS' short-lived reality show, Kid Nation, I suggested that the premise would work a lot better if the ghost town were run by ex-cons. Ex-Con Nation is still a thought in my mind, but in the meantime, ...

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New Mexico’s attorney general is investigating the upcoming CBS reality show Kid Nation on suspicion of violating child labor laws. The series is slated to premiere on September 19 and will feature 40 children, ages 8 to 15, ...

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I still remember the episode of Kid Nation. It was episode 4 entitled “Bless Us and Keep us Safe.” If you never watched Kid Nation, it was a show which aired in the Fall of 2007 that put a group of kids in a New Mexico ghost town to see ...

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Today's Baltimore Sun has an editorial castigating CBS over "Kid Nation." CBS should be ashamed of itself. Taking 40 kids to a New Mexico desert for 40 days of "nation" building, promoting the pint-sized pioneers as the stars of a new reality TV show, and then likening it to summer camp ...

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Entertainment Weekly has a look at ten former reality stars, and what they've been up to since their brush with fame. One of the ten people spotlighted is "Kid Nation" participant Taylor DuPriest. I heard about Kid Nation through pageants. I didn't hear about the ghost town at first — I just ...

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I heard about Kid Nation through pageants. I didn't hear about the ghost town at first — I just heard about going away for 40 days with 40 kids without your parents. But I was surprised that everybody ended up making so much controversy ...

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