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We are certainly NOT pro exploitation, we were just saying that kids can and do work. Regulations need to be in place so teenagers can get a job, perhaps on a Saturday to help their parents business, usually this is their own choice, the can gain valable life skills, work experience etc.
They are also engaged in meaningful activility that keeps them away from criminal exploitation, for example county lines for example.
I think in the UK the min age is 14, but teenagers have done paper rounds for generations for example.l
@zleap @truthat and if that’s the case, based purely on being one of the 99% of people who didn’t read the full story, it gives the impression of dems being overprotective & interfering in how republicans are raising their kids to work. The headlines present a very different picture and it’s little things like that which can help sway independent voters. Rather than people actually seeing the story about rolling back safety protections to endanger teens, that’s much different
@zleap @truthat I am all on board with that. There needs to be protections from the govt to protect them. But they should also be able to work if it’s relatively safe. Even in my teens, I rarely worked more than 1 school night a week and was done by 10 or 11 at latest. It was always weekends and summers so as not to interfere with school. I was doing this at age 12. My entire point was that the headlines made it seem like kids couldn’t work before and now they can which wasn’t true