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[–] 93 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

Child labor.

Despite progress, child labour still affects nearly 138 million children worldwide

https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-protection/child-labour/>

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Affects is such a strange way to put it. Like, "they caught a case of child labor."

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I get you, but how would you phrase it? I expect, BTW, that it might be intended to cover both the extreme of children forced to work in a sweatshop 12/7 and children who have to help their parents with some subsistence tasks.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Those two should not be counted in the same category.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Maybe not, but the boundaries can be fuzzy, and statistics tend to get built on technical language that may not treat the fuzziness the way you or I would agree with. So I get the urge to use vague language like 'affects' or the difficulty in finding language that is general enough without sounding mealy mouthed.

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