Let's look at this rationally, despite child labour laws in western countries our governments gladly allow minors to take care of their disabled or infirm paren

Let's look at this rationally, despite child labour laws in western countries our governments gladly allow minors to take care of their disabled or infirm parents or siblings instead of covering the cost of care workers. This is the most ungodly form of exploitation in western countries, no child is going to refuse caring for their parents because they have no knowledge that they're unlikely to graduate high school and will have employment problems their entire life. Even if they did know, they're incapable of making that choice and will likely always choose to care for their family, but our governments have configured our labour laws to allow this to take place and readily admit they have no intention of changing the laws. Most western countries even give out awards for 'young carers'. These are children exploited 24/365, with overtime pay this work would easily be 6-figure income on minimum wage, and children as young as a few years old are regularly doing things they shouldn't have to. Beyond that, we readily allow our children to babysit, mow the lawn, rake the leaves, and a whole host of tasks that exploit children for reduced expenses, and we readily allow this in our own homes. Yet we complain about child labour in third world countries, why? Because the poverty level is so high in these countries that the children need to work to help provide for their families. The main, and often only cause, of child labour is parental poverty. If you solve parental poverty, you solve child labour. Once the parents can support themselves be it by better wages, unemployment or disability insurances, then those very parents will be free to exploit their own children like we do our own. Once the parents can support their families, their children will be voluntarily babysitting and doing chores. If we don't evaluate babysitting as child exploitation in a first world country, then we have to seriously re-evaluate what child exploitation means in a third world economy. I'm certain the majority of these children are doing it exclusively to provide for their family, and forcing them out of legal employment will force them to illegal employment. This means forcing underage children into criminal organizations that will allow them to get money. For many children this will quite literally come down to a child working in a factory vs working in a gang or working as a child prostitute. I don't particularly want children working in factories, even if the conditions are vastly better than what my great-grandfather went through. However, in my opinion, even if it prevents only a single girl from working as a prostitute, it's a moral fucking victory. However, it's likely to prevent thousands of young girls from working as prostitutes, and thousands of boys from joining gangs and dealing drugs.