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

Kimberly J. Rauscher; Carol W. Runyan; Michael Schulman

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.02.014

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

Kimberly J. Rauscher
, Carol W. Runyan
, Michael Schulman

School of Public and Population Health

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
North Carolina State University

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	414-417
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Adolescent Health
Volume	47
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.02.014
State	Published - Oct 2010

Keywords

Adolescent workers
Education, and Workplace health and safety
Knowledge of child labor laws
Parents

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