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Farm Parents’ Views on their Children’s Labor on Family Farms: A Focus Group Study of Wisconsin Dairy Farmers

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  • Lydia Zepeda
  • Jongsoog Kim

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This study examines parents’ perspectives on their children working on their family dairy farms in Wisconsin. The objective of this focus group study is (1) to gain insights on why children work on their family farms, (2) to identify those benefits that parents perceive that they and their children gain from their children working on-farm, (3) to determine the concerns that parents have about their children working, (4) to identify ways to improve the safety of children on family farms, and (5) to understand how US agricultural policy impacts family decisions to use their children’s labor on their farms. The two focus groups reveal that fathers and mothers have different concerns and different perceptions regarding the benefits gained from having their children work on farms. The findings suggest that in response to US agricultural policy, parents are increasingly reliant upon their children’s labor. Children work the longest hours on economically stressed farms. Copyright Springer 2006

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  • Lydia Zepeda & Jongsoog Kim, 2006. "Farm Parents’ Views on their Children’s Labor on Family Farms: A Focus Group Study of Wisconsin Dairy Farmers," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 23(1), pages 109-121, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:23:y:2006:i:1:p:109-121
    DOI: 10.1007/s10460-004-5873-8
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    1. Westbrooke, Victoria & Nuthall, Peter, 2017. "Why small farms persist? The influence of farmers’ characteristics on farm growth and development. The case of smaller dairy farmers in NZ," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 61(4), October.
    2. Florence Becot & Casper Bendixsen & Kathrine Barnes & Josie Rudolphi, 2021. "Broadening Our Understanding of Farm Children’s Risk Exposure by Considering Their Parents’ Farming Background," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(10), pages 1-18, May.
    3. Anderson, Duncan J. & Jack, Claire G. & Connolly, Niamh, 2012. "Identifying Financially Versatile Milk Production Systems," 123rd Seminar, February 23-24, 2012, Dublin, Ireland 122460, European Association of Agricultural Economists.
    4. Emily Reid-Musson & Ellen MacEachen & Mary Beckie & Lars Hallström, 2022. "Work without workers: legal geographies of family farm exclusions from labour laws in Alberta, Canada," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 39(3), pages 1027-1038, September.

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