Farmers fume at proposed limits on their children's work
Story Date: 12/5/2011

  Source: Rick Barrett, NEWS & OBSERVER, 12/4/11

Shelly Mayer says she would never do anything to put her three children in harm's way on their family dairy farm, but she worries proposed regulations could put an end to many jobs for farm kids.
As Americans, Mayer says, we are too protective of our children when it comes to physical labor.
"We have raised a generation of 'bubble-wrap' babies," she says.

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