Down the mines or sweatshops?

[ColdHardTruth]

if you'd have had your way, I've not have worked as a kid

Sure, you would have. You just would not have been working 12-hour days.

without those many hours working, I'd not have had money to buy a car and pay for my college (what scholarships didn't cover)

Not true. It would have taken longer.

you don't understand being poor - clearly

I understand why you think this. I do understand and I do not oppose work; however, I object to children and teens being used as farm hands. That being said, I had a horse of my own once and he was a friend. I generally did not eat until after he was fed. One of my cousins had a bull called Rojo Diablo. He was actually not as bad as his name implies.

 

[stealthycat]

Yes, I would have stopped you from working and we have no idea what the results would have been.
It could be better or worse.

except I lived it

I think that's the disconnect here - most posters were from richer, wealth privileged homes and don't understand being poor or working to have anything.

 

[stealthycat]

I think we can just leave this with the knowledge that you're in favour of child labour and let everyone decide what they think of that opinion.

of course I'm in favor of a teenager having a job if they want to work