I agree with the first answer. But I would add one
thing.
The first answer says we have to remember that those
days were not like today and so we must not hold them to our values. But we also have
to compare those days to what came before.
It is true that
kids had always been expected to work. But before the Industrial Revolution, that work
had always happened at home, within the context of the family's work (farming, mostly,
but other things too).
Once industrialization came, the
kids were expected to work, but now they were working away from their family and under
the supervision of strangers.
This put stress on the
families because it was a very different social situation than had existed
before.
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