Project 2025 Uses Parental Rights to Justify Repealing Child Labor Protections

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Project 2025 Uses Parental Rights to Justify Repealing Child Labor Protections
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The far right blueprint for the next Republican president seeks to make a major change to federal child labor law.A child holds a small American flag as Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at the Ryder Center for Health and Physical Education at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan, on October 3, 2024.

“Parental rights can be used for a variety of different purposes,” Naomi Cahn, a professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, told. “Sometimes parental rights can be used affirmatively to protect children, and sometimes parental rights can be used as a rhetorical device on behalf of other interests.

Cahn and her coauthors assert that in the case of child labor rollbacks, “The use of parental-rights rhetoric … is an attempt to distract from the brute, profit-driven interests that are driving this legislation in order to hire children to perform jobs cheaply by casting these issues in the more politically palatable rhetoric of parental rights.

Cahn and her coauthors outline this opposition, noting that the American Farm Bureau Federation distributed a brochure titled Cahn and her coauthors point out the often inconsistent use of parental rights rhetoric: “When it comes to gender-affirming care, for example, some states override parental rights willingly.”

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