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Children look after themselves in many of these communities.

THAILAND | Friday, 8 February 1991 | Views [816] | Comments [2]

Children look after themselves in many of these communities.

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this is so sad why people have kids if they r not willing ti look after them and knowing how expensive it is now to have children this kids are the one how suffer people out the should do somethig to stop having kids someone should do something about

  Rosy Apr 21, 2007 3:20 AM

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No, it isn't sad at all. Many of these communities are more closely bonded than any of our own. They mnight be dirt poor but perhaps I'll upload the rest of the ones I took that day and you'll see that the kids are having a ball crushing sugar cane. In Asia, the children are usually expected to look after each other while the parents work. Not such a bad system.
simon

  simon_monk Apr 21, 2007 7:53 PM

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