The magnitude of both historical and contemporary filicide is such that it is unlikely that any conceivable corrective measures would be excessive. We are speaking here of an end to a system of slavery as old as history. An end to slavery is a beginning of freedom. In such a situation work and play tend to become more or less indistinguishable. Thomas Eakins, The Swimming Hole.
Child labor is nightmarish only in a world where adult labor is nightmarish.
Compulsory miseducation of children will continue as long as the accepted and applauded model for adult behavior is compulsory success, which in its organismic and societal effects is in fact compulsory failure. Education, as A. S. Neill put it, is a matter of freedom, not license. Beyond filicide, freedom is that state in which one accepts the responsibility for one's acts. It is there that a life begins so different from this one that we now can only glimpse it in our puzzling dreams which come to us every night and which we have learned so efficiently to forget every morning.