However, for some reason, children can never be employed as hunters, as well as staff for Order/Faith buildings (except the House of Healing). Child labor would be next to worthless if children couldn't do those tasks as well as adults in the same building, as using children would limit the output of any such building, when resources and space for extra buildings are highly important factors to consider.
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If you have full child labor implemented, you can have children doing a variety of tasks, from the physically strenuous woodcutting and mining to healing patients on the brink of death, without any adult supervision. For gameplay purposes, children are just as effective at any workplace they can work at as adults, except with a chance of getting injured or killed while doing dangerous jobs.
The same workers who spent the whole day gathering resources can still spend all night putting up houses without any penalty.