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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (42675)	12/8/2003 12:27:17 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (2) of 74559

You are wrong about child labor. Those youngsters are entitled to childhood In agrarian economies children always worked. Very few would say that a child who grows up working on a family farm or ranch has had their childhood stolen. Children in an agrarian economy are seen as an asset because it means there are more hands to help. The problems arise when a country moves from agrarian to industrial. Children which were once an asset are now a liability unless they continue to work. It took the US about three generations to make that adjustment. My grandparents had 23 children because they were still stuck with the idea that children were an asset but my sisters all stopped at two because by then it was clear children were a financial liability. A country can't adjust to this change over night, it takes several generations for them to adjust to this basic change. You risk wholesale abandonment of children or infanticide by imposing our view of childhood on countries that only recently moved away from an agrarian economy.

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