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A comment on All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depressed (2011). Parent comment

Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by eropple on Friday May 11, 2018 @10:44AM (#17047625)
That "tragically high" number was still a rounding error, though, in the United States.

I do wonder if it is a particularly American thing to take the wild exception as the norm like this.

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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by s_kilk on Friday May 11, 2018 @10:46AM (#17047639)
Ireland, actually. I'd be curious to see the stats, but suffice to say enough families were losing children that there were major changes to farm safety regulation.
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Re:All Work and No Play: Why Kids Are More Anxious, Depresse... by cfadvan on Friday May 11, 2018 @10:48AM (#17047656)
Ireland here as well, and that had a lot to do with poverty and families needing their kids to work at a young age. The same was true in the US before child labor laws. I think a general “ambient” risk and a culture of,having your 9 year old work on the farm or in a mill are fundamentally separate issues.
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