Good grief, what's next?
Kids can't wash dishes, make their beds, clean their room, do their own laundry?
Poor overburdened children!
There is already an obesity problem with youngsters and its going to get worse.
HankD
Already there. When we had our wonderful investigation from children's services, part of their questionnaire includes what chores children are required to do.
Anything for kids under 15 that goes beyond picking up their toys and keeping their own room cleaned up, such as dishes, vacuuming, or other "common areas" of the home or yard are charted at a higher number, raising the way they figure the possibility/probability of abuse.
Higher numbers are bad.
For example, say you have a child that is 8 years old and home schooled. They consider that child unable to get out in public and not old enough to understand abuse properly, so whether the child is abused or not, they may automatically score the risk level as a 7 (score of 0-10), then when you factor in that they may have marked a high number on the chore factor, the overall number is raised.
Now say that you have a child who is bent on going and touching the wood stove. To teach the child no to do that, you slap his/her hand and say no. One of your older children tells this to the social worker. You have now struck your child/used corporal punishment, so you receive a 10.
So simply because they do chores, are under a certain age, and you prevent your child from burning yourself, you may already be scored at 26 simply based on those three questions, but then there are more questions.
Were YOU, the parent, ever abused? If so, the number goes even higher.
Now you have red flags all over the place and you're being looked at as being someone who is at a pretty high risk for abusing a child.
Family business? Yeah right. Don't even try it. It always gets me how massive global corporations can get away with sweat shop products all over, but then a fit is thrown over chocolate produced in places where it is the culture for whole families to work together, but we stick our now screwed-up American values on them and say "oh no, this is horrible and we must force smaller companies to quit buying from them!" and then a whole village get plunged into despair and further poverty and now those same kids aren't eating, but that's better than working in the family business, right?
People can be so stupid with this stuff.
Then to boot, they turn 18 and magically are supposed to turn into strong, responsible citizens who are capable of standing on their own two feet and supporting themselves. We see how well THAT is working out...and only getting worse.
Rawr.