Bostongirl, Now you are speaking a different tune. You call for an elimination of the demand, that is called denoucing the child labor. You also agreed that most of the Nepalis cant afford adult workers. Doesnt that mean that their replacement are paid less? So, the child labors are paid less. Doesnt that constitute some derivation of slavery? Also theres a difference in abusing a child and abusing an adult. The actions may be the same but the outcome are definitely different. I hope I dont need to explain this to you. It is for a reason that the world is against having kids replace the adults in the workforce. They are built differently and thus can't cope with the pressure of working in real life that begets stern consequences of ones shortcomings. Again, if the situation of child labors in Nepal was so innocent as some of you have portrayed, why dont the masters make their own kids do all the chores? If infact the "experience" is really helping kids why dont the masters want their own kids experienced? Lets not be that naive about what these child workers get for their services. Its absolutely nothing. They get deprived of the childhood. The one and only thing these kids have. I say, even though it sounds a little cruel, let them starve, let them rot. We are better off watching these kids dry out than give a life that will haunt them for the rest of their lives. If hunger kills in a day, a robbed childhood will kill that kid each and everyday.