Outo no Hazure no Renkinjutsushi ~Hazure Shokugyou Datta node, Nonbiri Omise Keiei Shimasu~ - Vol. 3 Ch. 14 - Duty and Determination

[Seraphus]

Also, independent at age TEN!?! Even in our history 12-13 y/o was the youngest for what could be considered an adult and that's when the human lifespan was 30-40 years...

Whoa, hold yer horses there, Hoss; children abandoned, houseless, and working jobs for pay was normal in the USA until a law was passed that they had to be either cared for, adopted, or registered as their own person... in the 1900s, and only enforced nationwide in the 1940s!
Child labor across the world still currently happens, and they are not always slaves nor are they always parented.

This storyline is as applicable in Bangladesh as it is in the Muscovites' territories, today.

There's a famous picture from 1938, taken in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; it is a boy, at 9 years old, smoking a cheap cigarette with his clothes in rags.
He had his own job, and was independent at 10 years old; he wasn't the youngest in the neighborhood.
And his plight was, at the time, mirrored in many, many Eurasian countries, as well as SudAmi and African ones.

This whole story is normal; today, or in the past, it's actually normal.
The current Earth simply has better technology and communication; we can ask for help more easily, and people can give help more easily.
That's it.
That's the big secret of humanity, actually; we can work together.

Anyway, sorry for the babble, but I think you may have it backwards; this story is pretty normal, in almost any known human society.
Unfortunate, perhaps, but... normal.

 

[BanzaiYuri]

Whoa, hold yer horses there, Hoss; children abandoned, houseless, and working jobs for pay was normal 8n the USA until a law was passed that they had to be either cared for, adopted, or registered as their own person... in the 1900s, and only enforced nationwide in the 1940s!
Child labor across the world still currently happens, and they are not always slaves nor are they always parented.

This storyline is as applicable in Bangladesh as it is in the Muscovites' territories, today.

There's a famous picture from 1938, taken in Baltimore, Maryland, USA; it is a boy, at 19 years old, smoking a cheap cigarette with his clothes in rags.
He had his own job, and was independent at 10 years old; he wasn't the youngest in the neighborhood.
And his plight was, at the time, mirrored in many, many Eurasian countries, as well as SudAmi and African ones.

This whole story is normal; today, or in the past, it's actually normal.
The current Earth simply has better technology and communication; we can ask for help more easily, and people can give help more easily.
That's it.
That's the big secret of humanity, actually; we can work together.

Anyway, sorry for the babble, but I think you may have it backwards; this story is pretty normal, in almost any known human society.
Unfortunate, perhaps, but... normal.

Yeah I've only got a paltry amount of workers' rights history in my head unfortunately 😅