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Don't want to be pedantic but you don't "own" children, you are parent.
OP is probably not a native English speaker and didn't mean for it to sound this way
Can you legally make them work for you for free?
As long as the work can reasonably be referred to as "helping out their parent" and you're not getting paid for it, yup. No problem.
Thx, I don't like this kind of view, too.
There is a quote in my native language: "Kids are only borrowed."