I agree that kids should learn a work ethic. I don't agree that they should be taught such an ethic by working in jobs where they pose a danger to themselves and to the others around him.
Nobody is threatening to put him in jail- he's being fined and enjoined from using his kids as free labor in a dangerous line of work.
Don't build strawman arguments.
I take it your screen name references your most-recent birth, say, yesterday?
I agree that kids should learn a work ethic. I don't agree that they should be taught such an ethic by working in jobs where they pose a danger to themselves and to the others around him.
What about all the generations of parents whose kids helped out on the family farm, operating trucks, tractors and combines? Were they guilty of child abuse? Never mind that. What about the frontier parents whose kids helped fight off marauding Indians? What kind of ethics were they instilling in their children?