> No parent no matter how poor wants their child to work unless they cannot afford to feed them.
As anyone who has grown up in a country where child labor was normal will tell you, this is patently false. If it is the norm in the country in question, everyone does it and it is expected. Children who do not work and their families are in many cases ostracized.
Then of course there are jobs and jobs, and a certain type of parent might vie for a job for their child that is less backbreaking than the average. But not working at all is frowned upon.
Source: lived experience in Soviet Union.
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