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To: GraceZ who wrote (42808)12/9/2003 11:00:25 AM
From: Joe S Pack  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
Grace,
That is a nice summary of what I wanted to say about this issue. I was a child labor in my family to help my father in the farm and mother in the kitchen, that too without any explicit pay!. It is not considered as child labor in my village. We also had a lot of play time and fun with other kids almost every evenings. As you put it, some times it is a willingly accepted challenge and joy to emulate what adults do. I also worked as a child labor to earn money during my summer vacations. Though my father would
sometimes discourage me and expect me to spend more time with school books, I learned a lot about the value of hard work and money during those formative years.

So people vouching against child labor without understanding the situation are monday morning quarterbacks IMHO.


So, in the meantime an entire generation or two of children learn to become hard-hearted survivors & inflict the emotional deprivation of such a childhood on others.

My mother grew up on a farm. She was expected to work from the time she could walk. When my mother told stories about her childhood on the farm she spoke of it as if it was some wonderful joyous place. I don't doubt is was a hard life, but she loved it and she missed it.

My father who lived in the city was expected to work from the age of nine. He was out at 3 am selling newspapers on the street corner. Never once did he speak with bitterness about these things. He was taught from an early age that men were expected to work and contribute to the family finances, so he worked.
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