Factory legislation if the first reaction of society against the process of production. These are the first concessions gained from the capitalist. This legislation when confined to regulating the labor in factories is a mere interference with the rights of capital. However, if applied to production in the home it is an outrage. The current forces of production are tearing apart those traditional family relations.
Parents can exploit their children labor.
However it is not parental exploitation that is the source of the problem. Rather it is capitalism, which has swept away the economic basis of the family and denigrated parental authority into a mischievous use of power. The forces of production are reshaping traditional family relations. The peasant is eliminated in this sphere and replaced by the wage laborer. Scientific methods replace the irrational, old-fashioned methods of agriculture.