It is child abuse if your children work before the legal work age.
You can be put on the child abuse registry if you have your children do household chores, yard work, or whatever small task.

Just sit around and gain no life experience before adulthood.

Exactly!!  Because the state knows way more about teaching YOUR children how to become responsible young adults than any parent who was raised that way.
If more parents would teach their kids what responsibility is and how to be responsible for their actions we wouldn't have half the problems we have nowadays.