Hi John - I'm not talking about internal US laws.  Rather, I'm talking about International laws, commissions on human rights, etc.  The companies in the US follow US laws very closely - but there's no reason to follow International guidelines, because the US has not agreed to these international guidelines.  But still, the US is going 'against the grain' and has, what the international human rights groups consider, to be child labor.  It's just something I find fasctinating.  -Kenneth