There was a time when children were free to play in the fields they tilled, learn skills in the factories that employed them, or even frolic on the sets of such films as Home Alone and The Sixth Sense.
The modern child labor trade has taken all the fun out of preteen employment, it seems, as some are forced into the most soul-crushing of kiddo careers.
With mechanization and animation in full force, children must work in ever more dangerous fields just to make “ends meat”, which is apparently what we’re calling stew made from remainders and scraps these days.
GlossyNews.com profiles two such children as they complete their education at the ages of ten and eleven as they transition into the white collar work force, as evidenced by both of them having white collars.
The journey from young boy to bread winner isn’t pretty. It’s a road paved with disappointment, balding and assorted speech impediments.
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