Child Workforce helps struggling parents pay bills and earn a little extra money for food or survival needs. Child labor is a good thing because it helps families who need money to pay off their debts and need it for everyday life. Children are known to help their parents by doing chores, small favors, and housework. Children work similarly to their parents and are paid by the wage and hour, some people pay the minimum wage and others pay the real value of the work. In Pennsylvania, children could work in factories as young as 8 years old. In the 18th century, factories depended on the presence and work of children every day. Families moved to rural northern areas on farms to seek out new industrialized places and make a living. Poor families had to find good work to support their family. Factory owners loved child labor because it was cheap and they could support their ideas by saying it was good for the country/state and the economy. Child labor was very useful, because they could fit into smaller areas that the average human couldn't fit into. Children were used to solving small problems in machines that could become a bigger problem, because the adult man's hand could not adapt. children from smaller areas were very useful to the factory owners. factory owners also found it much easier to get them to work easier and manage and control the feeling of getting more work from them. Owners and parents could send them away for work and trade them for older or younger ones so they could earn more money and make a better life for each other. So many families had to depend on children to go out, work and make money. for the family... half paper... more and more educated when it came to work, and as they grew up they were better at work and knew the rules of what to do and what not to do. “Federal and state child labor laws regulating agricultural employment reflect this belief and are much less restrictive than those applied to other industries. Children working on farms owned or operated by a parent are completely exempt from federal agricultural child labor regulations, and other adolescent farm workers are allowed to perform hazardous work at younger ages than their counterparts working in other industries.” (Laws and enforcement of child labor laws). “Since the early 1800s, children were an integral part of the textile industry workforce. In the Manayunk district of Philadelphia, children as young as seven watched the spinning and weaving of cotton and woolen goods.” (Kenneth, Wolensky and Judith, Rich)