lol it's amazing to see otherwise "conservative" thinking people take the side of guvmint when it doesn't fit into their little description of what should and should not be allowed.
The best description of Rights as I see it, is if I cannot legally tell you not to do something, then neither can the state.
I can legally keep you from murdering someone. When it comes to teaching your child work ethics or morals or your beliefs, that is none of my business.
Neither is it the business of the Bolshevik statists.
Yes, and I can legally keep you from having your small children operate heavy machinery on or around my property, because it imposes an unreasonable risk of damage or injury to me.
I'm not sure that works. The state can stop me from comitting harm to other people, whereas you might not be able to. For example, the state can arrest me for stealing a candy bar from a store, but you probably could not (unless you were a store owner).
I can legally keep you from murdering someone. When it comes to teaching your child work ethics or morals or your beliefs, that is none of my business.
Nobody is trying to stop him from teaching his kids ethics or morals. He's committed insurance fraud and put his kids in dangerous situations.
OK. In that case, I will sign on to your idea--if you, in turn, accept that the parents get the death penalty if their child (or anyone else) is killed incidental to the child doing work that reasonably prudent individuals would judge too dangerous for someone of that age to perform.
Sticking a 13-year-old on a backhoe is, IMNHO, just inviting the Grim Reaper to show up.