Children can certainly be abused for labor, but they can also get a lot out of it, and it's at least defensible in that case. I worked in construction for my fa

Children can certainly be abused for labor, but they can also get a lot out of it, and it's at least defensible in that case. I worked in construction for my father at that age. I was well looked after, was able to do actually useful work to help him, learned things and got paid. If I had been prevented from doing that by child labor laws it would have been a loss for everyone involved.