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In this question, we're asked to kind of look at the considerations about allowing children to have after -school jobs.
00:06
And on one hand, it makes like a lot of sense that adolescents should have the freedom to work as much as they want after school, as long as it doesn't interfere with their education.
00:16
You could argue that this is great, they get more money, plus they also get financial independence, they learn an important life skill of time management, which a lot of adolescents struggle with, and responsibility, which are important life skills that the schools, they may not always teach.
00:34
So if you could frame it as this extra work is skill development, and it's stuff that they wouldn't learn otherwise.
00:43
Now on the other hand, you may want to limit the number of hours that they work.
00:48
Doing more than 20 hours a week has been shown to have negative psychological effects.
00:55
And we have empirical information that shows that when we do allow more than 20 hours for adolescents a week, you have negative academic performance, it starts to affect their schoolwork, their psychological well -being goes down incredibly...