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[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Thank you for sharing that! Wow. Just wow. That's beyond fucked up.

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Yeah it definitely goes on. I cannot understand why the TRA in question would want to paint it as being appropriate though??? No, I don't think you kids should be getting married or working full time as carpenters. What on earth??

Anecdotally my grandparents left school at 13 to work, and while their lives aren't messed or horrible up for it, it wasn't a great situation and they worked hard so that their own kids would not have to have a childhood like that.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and they worked hard so that their own kids would not have to have a childhood like that.

EXACTLY!!! We try to better society so that we do not have to live like that, with the pointless harms and dangers that we did in the past... so why use the past as justification for doing bullshit today?? "They did something equally as harmful in the past" is not a good justification for doing something harmful in the present.