re: #19 marjoriemoon

Talking about babysitting or having a paper route (are there such things anymore??) at age 12 is one thing. I don’t know anyone outside of my Grandad who started work prior to age 12. Of course, he was born in 1902 before there were labor laws. He started working at age 9 for his father which was probably what 90% of young men did at that time when there was no industry, corporations or fast food joints. You took up your father’s occupation.

At any rate, babysitting or paper route is not a full time job anyway and it’s not scrubbing toilets. Newt is completely deranged (not a revelation).

That would be every child ever raised on a farm.

You’ll see a statistic that “most” chocolate is tainted by child labor. “Most” cacao beans are also produced on family farms.

As long as the kids go to school as well, I have no problem with it. My grandmother grew up on a farm and graduated from college at 20.