Sucks that this kinda thing is necessary, but it is. There might be quibbles about this particular law but the fact is there's parents who get hooked on their kids' productivity and come to think it theirs. "After all, it's my kid, my capital, I do (some|most) of the <i>real</i> work..."<p>Later, pathological stages feature the parent asking more of the child, then valuing the results with growing contempt, unrelated to the actual worth of the product.<p>When outsiders tell the kid what <i>they</i> think the work is worth, the parent will sometimes go to extreme lengths to preclude further contact and denigrate the 3rd party: "they just want to scam us; we shouldn't ever talk to them again"<p>... leaves scars.<p>A kid who discovers they're good at something valuable early on can be lead into doing that <i>hard</i> for <i>years</i> before it gets bad enough to wake 'em up. "we'll take care of the business stuff, you just pursue your art!" turns to "It takes <i>all of us</i> to <i>make it happen</i>; so you go ahead and put in 150 hours this week while we go on vacation."<p>turns to "...but the work was important, and fun; and its not like i had any other life or reason to use that time, right?"