When do people have a chance to directly choose between stranger on another continent and their children? If I refuse to buy something made in a distant sweat

When do people have a chance to directly choose between stranger on another continent and their children? If I refuse to buy something made in a distant sweat shop and pay more for a product from a company that treats its foreign labourers fairly, I'm putting a stranger over my children in that I could have spent that extra money on the kids instead. That kind of decision making is not unheard of or unrealistic.