Blackstone Code
Chapter 1907

The Wait Will Not Be Long

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Child labor was difficult for anyone with a moral baseline to accept.

It was precisely because people found it so difficult to accept that the public response had been so intense.

There were ultimately more good people than bad, but unfortunately, some decisive things were often in the hands of bad people! It was a new year and a new day, yet the evening's television was anything but relaxing.

Several Television Stations broadcast reports about child labor. The force behind this was the Presidential Palace and the President himself.

Media outlets with no opposing political stance did not obstruct the issue.

Even media outlets controlled by the Conservative Party actively broadcast related news and independent investigative reports.

In reality, this was another way to smear the Progressive Party—more covert, but also more damaging.

Landa appeared on Blackstone Television Station's evening talk show.

She discussed child labor with the host, further increasing the weight of this keyword in society.

When the host asked whether these conditions would improve once the amendments to the "Children Act" came into effect, Landa gave an uncertain answer.

"Among some of the cases we investigated, most child laborers' parents did not have only one child."

"These families had many children—three, four, or even more. Some families would even voluntarily adopt suitable children and put them to work!"

"In other words, children and the child labor system had become a means of making money for certain morally twisted people. Once these people and the children under their control lost the opportunity to work..."

"The pressure brought by life would make these families' financial problems even worse."

"These adults often had no jobs. Now that they had lost their income, they would certainly find a way to deal with the trouble they were facing."

"When I discussed this

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