However, a question arises: are children dependent individuals or under the parental control? Child vulnerability is also related to the vulnerability of their families.

Bolivian working children have organised a trade union to protect them from parental and employer exploitation. Access to justice and social and economic rights, and having a voice could also be included in the child well-being analysis.

—Gaëlle Ferrant, posted on www.wikiprogress.org

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