<p>I agree, with the writer. I go to India every four years and live there with family for a few weeks, and have seen this first hand. Poverty not only exists in India in the small rural villages but with the bustling urban cities, and every day as I rose and looked out the window, I saw the haphazard shacks of cardboard housing the untouchables, who worked each day in subhuman places earning mere pennies. And it broke my heart I could not help alleviate their sufferings. </p>
<p>The problem we face in America, is that we jump to quickly to label something good or bad without analyzinng the context of the situation objectively. Yes the children are working in horrendous conditions, with many innocent ones dying of malnutrition and work-related injuries. However wrong this institution of child labor is, in context of the situation, it is the only thing giving them the meager meals to live. By cutting trade, we signing a death sentence for millions of children, while thinking that yes we have done some good. And this problem contiually arises, as we label a situation good or bad and then place ourselves upon a pedestal proposing a solution without ever truly understading why the situation is what it is. We don't have to look to far to see that within our own history, child larbor was an integral part of our country's rise to industrialism. Monopolus companies in the United States, from the 1800s to early 1900s, commonly utilized child larbor and season immigrants to allow for them to grow and boost America's economy. And with gradual time working rights were established to ensure safety in the work place and reasonable wages. America rather than embargoing trade with these companies that employ labor, can invest in them to provide safer working conditions, higher wages, while reaping great profits.</p>