And if parents tried to require school aged children to do a couple of hours of serious chores every day, or go to bed without dinner, the parents would be charged with child abuse, and the children hauled away by "social services".
Sadly, in many places that is true. Then the real abuse begins.
It is a pity those people did not stop with the clear-cut cases of abuse and remain usefull, rather than seek to raise the bar and make themselves 'indispensible' to all. Many are well enough intentioned, but their logic is deeply flawed. Some reasonable level of adversity is not only not abuse, but builds character. The absence of adversity fosters decadence.