Chores around a house are an educational tool and may be considered beneficial. On a farm, you get lots of additional "chores" on top. Where the "chores" are ha

Chores around a house are an educational tool and may be considered beneficial. On a farm, you get lots of additional "chores" on top. Where the "chores" are hard labour, often dangerous, at times early in the morning before school and in an amount where you do replace paid workers. A household does work without a child doing chores. A family farm won't be profitable without the free labour from the children. There is a reason farming families do have a larger number of children compared to the average. And while, yes, it has been this way for millenia, times change. If it weren't on a farm, with the same amount of "chores", child protection would get involved in an instant.