Awareness and knowledge of the U.S. child labor laws among a national sample of working adolescents and their parents.

J Adolesc Health

Department of Community Medicine, Robert C. Byrd Health Science Center School of Medicine, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, USA.

Published: October 2010

This study investigated awareness and knowledge of U.S. child labor laws among a nationally representative sample of 677 working adolescents and their parents. Findings demonstrate broad awareness of the child labor laws among adolescents, but little knowledge of the laws' specific provisions among either youth or their parents.

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