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Banning child labor has the unintended consequences of starvation or child prostitution. Then banning child prostitution would lead to only starvation.
The real solution is to legalize child labor. Fortunately in the US the standard of living is high enough few parents would resort to this type of condition for their children. Unfortunately, the path we are heading, they might need to legalize child labor in the next couple of decades.
The cost of living was so low/standard of living so high, that in the 50's and 60's a husband could provide for his family of 5 or 6 while his wife stayed home and took care of the children. During the 50's and 60's increases in productivity still outweighed the ill effects of inflation. Since the 70's when Nixon severed the last ties to the gold standard, inflation has skyrocketed. The dollar has lost 95% of its value since 1913. Today it takes two parents with 2 children to maintain what a husband could achieve for a family of 5 or 6 including his wife in the 50's and 60's. This is why I say if we keep heading down this path, child labor might have to be legalized to prevent prostitution.
The real pimp here isn't the parents, its the government taxing the poor with inflation.

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