Originally posted by normbenign
Is it better that children be able to work to support themselves, or to be locked out, to survive only by either begging, welfare, or prostitution?
Have you been around any of our big cities, where you can go out and see preteen girls street walking or selling drugs?
Where are the parents of kids that are working instead of getting educated?
"Is it better that children be able to work to support themselves, or to be locked out, to
survive only by either begging, welfare, or prostitution?"
wtf is wrong with you? this would excuse any kind of child labor.
it shouldn't be a choice between back breaking work in toxic conditions and prostitution, not in a country that calls itself civilized.
and yes, of course welfare is bloody preferable to child labour, are you insane?
"Have you been around any of our big cities, where you can go out and see preteen girls street walking or selling drugs?"
yes, the answer to that is to round them up, send them to shanty houses and make them work for 3000 dollars a year in scorching heat near toxic substances.
"Where are the parents of kids that are working instead of getting educated?"
working alongside them because they are desperate. which the article says. which you didn't read.