The denial of the status of child is necessary to both the labor and sexual exploitation of minors in exactly the same places. Christian lobbying drives both and is why the US continues to be the only UN member not to ratify the UN Convention on the rights of the child. www.nola.com/news/politic...
A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans
"First-term state Rep. Roger Wilder, R-Denham Springs, who sponsored the child labor measure and owns Smoothie King franchises across the Deep South, said he filed the bill in part because children want to work without having to take lunch breaks." ... hm, i see
The legal sanctioning of child abuse is the single biggest symptom to me of what a religious fundamentalist society this is. Nearly half of US states allow corporal punishment in schools, 20 states allow child rape through marriage regardless of age while another 22 allow it with age restrictions.