Being taught your father's/mother's craft from an early age so as you can continue the tradition is child labour to you?
It is if you make them work for more then X hours, depending on your job and state.
How hard do you work?
Harder then a kid like you ever will.
Do you even work at all?
All summer - except for a little off time. I am actually starting my week of off time before school this week.
Have you even seen an honest hour of simple, unquestionable work, like stacking firewood or studying a book thoroughly?
Yes, I have done like a thousand hours in the last two years of doing things most states hire illegal immigrants to do for a little more then they get. What have you done, exactly?
Think about the contexts. It's all about the circumstances; calling it child labour when you're already a full fledge adult at 15 seems parochial. Kings took power personally even younger than that; and peole dropped dead before they grasped at a fourth decade of life. It would be supremely unfair to claim that such work in the past was child labour. It's also rather foolish to jump on what Forger said and claim he is seething at child labour laws. That's an incredible leap you made, and it didn't make a modicum of sense in lambasting him.
Of course due to the caprices of the global economy and our perceptions of social structure due to longer life spans and changing social roles, this has all
changed so your my point of us having little reason to be angry at teens spending time so "frivolously" might hold water and is defensible. But it is abit tiring seeing you take an unrelated point and spin it into something insidious.
Oh! So we are talking about the 19nth century then? No? Then it does not matter. We are talking about modern times, at least in the past hundred years, it makes no since to state something like "The Ancient Egyptians children where very well behaved!"
ive worked from my 7 year old in the printing house of my parents.
was i a child and did i work? yes.
was it child labour? no.
i had fun working. and learned alot about what my parents did when i was goofing around town.
i had respect for people who worked. while my classmates still thought that working was a waste of time.
Great! Since it worked for you, rich middle class person, it must work for everyone! Right? That is how it works, right?
if you let kids only play play and play. then they come in a culture shock the moment we demand them to work.
and usualy we trow all those problems on the "they are a teener" argument.
Are we talking about our generation now? After all, you still have not said it yet...
