Thread With Dr. Chuck Quinley

Children and pre-teens all over the world are engaged in undertakings generally reserved for adults. Some of these roles happen out of family necessity. Big sisters care for babies. Others put in a full days work on farms at harvest. Millions of kids work jobs after school each day, gaining valuable skills and experience to equip them to live independently.While we would all want to see the hours for such labor limited and the places of work safe for kids, the point is that kids are far more capable than most people understand them to be.Play EpisodeSupport the show