If the legality of this is in question, it pulls all sorts of things into question with regard to children. As is, we do not recognize children as full persons, and this is why we do not give them full rights. If we did, there would be all sorts of legal repercussions:

- forcing children to attend school would be illegal, I agree

-We would be forced to give every child physically capable of writing on a ballot the right to vote

-Parents would no longer have custody of their children because that would be false imprisonment.

- Parents would no longer be required to care for their children to the age of 18 for the same reason listed above.

- all children too young to work would receive medical disability checks from social security.

Right now the states have the right to decide the age of maturity, though I'm not sure how this works constitutionally ( I see no age discrimination clauses in the constitution ) But as is, the states have this right, so unless this is overturned, I vote we send our children to the sweat shops and get some use out of them before they're 18.