New Jersey

If they ran into trouble, they'd toss him like a used Kleenex.

I presume he is going on to something better in life, after further schooling or an apprenticeship program or something like that. Nobody is going to care about the circumstances surrounding his employment at some minimum-wage job during his teenage years.

He'd have to live with it the rest of his life if he felt that he had compromised the health of anyone in his household.

It sounds like he was raised with good values, and a solid work ethic, but there is a lot of misery among people who put work first and family second.