[mtbopfuyn]

Child labor laws are very clear for ages, hours worked, tasks, as well as serving alcohol. They'll be busted soon enough.

[HungarianGypsy]

Child labor laws are very clear for ages, hours worked, tasks, as well as serving alcohol. They'll be busted soon enough.
Depending on what they are doing... a lot of child labor laws don't apply when working in a family business. It's more a case of helping out. My husband's best friend's family had the children helping around their potato processing plant from the time they were little.

[kittymyrib]

You can work your own children as many hours as you want. Obviously, you aren't the child of a farmer or rancher. I had my very own cut-down hoe to chop cotton when I was three years old, and we worked 10 hours a day. Learning how to work hard was wonderful training. It kept us out of mischief as teenagers because we were happy to go home, eat and go to bed. And it made us study like crazy to excel at school so we could live an easier life than we did at home.