Child labor is, without a doubt, a travesty. In a perfect world, no child would ever have to work to help feed his or her family and would be able to go to school happy and well-fed; unfortunately we don’t live in a perfect world. Well-meaning activists spend a great deal of time trying to protect children from the horrors of forced labor, but it seems to me that they often neglect to consider that the alternative may be much worse.

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