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Don't want to be pedantic but you don't "own" children, you are parent.
literally pedantism
oh, but you DO want to be pedantic.
very much. (to be a bit too pedantic here)
Can you legally make them work for you for free?
As long as the work can reasonably be referred to as "helping out their parent" and you're not getting paid for it, yup. No problem.
OP is probably not a native English speaker and didn't mean for it to sound this way
Thx, I don't like this kind of view, too.
There is a quote in my native language: "Kids are only borrowed."