The law in this case seems to make a distinction- farm work is excepted. People are romantic about family farms, I guess.
What about the frontier parents whose kids helped fight off marauding Indians? What kind of ethics were they instilling in their children?
At the time, everyone had to pitch in to survive. Here, we're talking about a parent who is putting his kids in danger to make some sort of moral point. Though his desire to teach his kids about the work ethic is admirable, the way he has chosen to do so is not.
" Here, we're talking about a parent who is putting his kids in danger to make some sort of moral point."
Not if he started training them from the time thay were born as I was.