Debate: Should child actors be role models to people their age?

Oh, kids shows these days. I wouldn't say that they're kids shows though, it's more like teen actors in a show aimed towards little kids. While many of the kids who watch those shows look up to those teen actors as role models, should the teens their age look up to them as role models also? Child actors should not be considered as role models to people their age because, most of them end up doing things that are not seen as 'right' and it will only damage the image they have to the younger audiences that look up to them.

Many of the young actors seem to have a knack of getting noticed. For example, Miley Cyrus, that sweet, innocent, fresh face that we all came to know on Disney's Hannah Montana. NOT. She supposedly wanted to get away from her 'image' and switch from pop songs to something 'edgier'. (check it out here). When she got caught with Nickelodeon star Avan Jogia (here), the fans only wanted to see Miley, not Avan. Half of them probably even said: "Who the hell is Avan Jogia?" It seems that most of the people who saw the picture only cared that Miley Cyrus was the one in the picture, and did not give a second-thought about Avan Jogia.

Nowadays, many actors that we see in the shows marketed to young audiences are much older than we expect them to be, most of them are even in their 20's.

I was looking up for the latest Superman/Flash rumors, and stumbled upon this article on Parade:

'Okay, I'm at a certain point in my life now where I only want to play this guy or that guy.' When Glee was casting, I thought, 'I'm too old to be a student. I need to stop playing high-school kids.' 

Many of the teen actors are over the legal age, some of them even younger, and they are caught doing things they shouldn't be doing. Even if most of them claim it's because they want to step away from the image they had before, it doesn't change the way that people will look at them even if they are doing those things.