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   fulltime jobs only for two reasons: either both sides of their parents   
   are addicts, or, what the father and mother both earn by no means can   
   support their expenses..   
      
   So the reader is still left to wonder of this 74% what portion have   
   addict parents and what portion poor parents.   
      
   I think they do not give out the total number of these kids, as well as   
   specific numbers of them being there for poverty reasons, not just   
   because it is illegal to allow underage kids work, but because perhaps   
   they do not want to provide a way for the enemy to calculate the   
   effectiveness of their using sanctions as weapon.   
      
   It is a war thing. Using sanctions is an act of war, and in a war, the   
   victim tries to hide the effectiveness of enemy's weapons.   
      
   And this war, has thus affected the contents of papers as well.. They're   
   not lying, but they're hiding some facts in subtle ways.   
      
   So 26% of the total population have other reasons to work fulltime jobs   
   than poverty and addiction of parents. I think most of them must be   
   weaving carpets in hidden rooms like it has been so customary in Iran's   
   culture and way of life. The paper has not placed this reason under   
   poverty because even some well-doing traditional families have such   
   workshops inside their houses.   
      
   Chamran, the physicist guy who ended up participating quite effectively   
   in early phases of the imposed Iran-Iraq war, is a good example. He was   
   from a middle class family in Tehran, and yet himself and all his   
   siblings in the house participated in weaving socks so the family could   
   earn some more money on the side as well. Weaving socks used to be very   
   popular in Iranian's households.   
      
   Similarly, Habibi's household in Tehran (he was an early presidential   
   candidate) was that of a middle class family, yet everybody in his   
   family also wove socks systematically and delivered them to bazaar and   
   sold them. He said this took place in his entire childhood and teen years.   
      
   Habibi was a capable man, and is the guy who wrote the first version of   
   Iran's constitution after collapse of Pahlavi regime, in case you don't   
   remember. He was quite a guy, one of the jewels, but didn't believe in   
   talking or writing. So any information about him in fact has come from   
   his wife, not himself. His absent autobiography is a pain in the hearts   
   of all the Iranians who matter.   
      
   Again according to his wife, he had once told her every time he sat down   
   to write a biography of himself, he'd hit the point where he had to   
   either write lies, or become the subject of assassination by "friends   
   _and_ foes."   
      
   So he'd soon stop and destroy the pages. A certain very sensitive period   
   of time in Iran's history right after the collapse of Shah's regime is   
   still in dark because he did not write that autobiography. He just kept   
   everything in himself until he died. He never discussed politics with   
   his wife either.   
      
   Anyway, and there are agricultural chores that kids often end up doing.   
   But that's mostly during summer when schools are closed. So I'd consider   
   the 26% normal and in fact a part of the way how some Iranian families are.   
      
   I am NOT from such a household, by the way. Hehe :) The first job I ever   
   had took only two months, and was right before graduating from   
   university, and I did that job with utter anger, frustration,   
   disillusionment, trauma, feeling betrayed, backstabbed, and forsaken.. !   
   That was my first job in my life :)   
      
   I was that spoiled.   
      
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