While the parents did not commend the ideas of their children working in the dangerous conditions, most of the time they had no choice but to consent to child labor because they needed the extra money. A series of laws were passed to help control child labor. The first was the Factory Act. This act, passed in 1833, put a limit on the amount of hours children could work in a day. Children below the age of nine were not permitted to work at all while children ranging in age from nine to thirteen could only work a maximum of eight hours per day. Ages fourteen to eighteen were only allowed to work for twelve hours a
While the parents did not commend the ideas of their children working in the dangerous conditions, most of the time they had no choice but to consent to child labor because they needed the extra money. A series of laws were passed to help control child labor. The first was the Factory Act. This act, passed in 1833, put a limit on the amount of hours children could work in a day. Children below the age of nine were not permitted to work at all while children ranging in age from nine to thirteen could only work a maximum of eight hours per day. Ages fourteen to eighteen were only allowed to work for twelve hours a