  The involvement of children in the family dairy farming is pivotal point to
reduce the cost of production input, especially in smallholder dairy farming.
The purposes of the study are to analysis the factors that influence children's
participation in working in the family dairy farm. The study was held December
2020 in the development center of dairy farming in Pangalengan subdistrict,
West Java Province, Indonesia. The econometric method used in the study was the
logit regression model. The results of the study determine that the there were
number of respondents who participates in family farms was 52.59% of total
respondents, and the rest was no participation in the family farms. There are 3
variables in the model that are very influential on children's participation in
the family dairy farming, such as X1 (number of dairy farm land ownership), X2
(number of family members), and X6 (the amount of work spent on the family's
dairy farm). Key words: Participation, children, family, dairy farming, logit
model
