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The passage below is taken from testimony before Parliament.
Joshua Drake, called in; and Examined.
You say you would prefer moderate labour and lower wages; are you pretty comfortable upon your present wages?
—I have no wages, but two days a week at present; but when I am working at some jobs we can make a little, and at others we do very poorly.
When a child gets 3s. a week, does that go much towards its subsistence?
—No, it will not keep it as it should do.
Why do you allow your children to go to work at those places where they are ill-treated or over-worked?
—Necessity compels a man that has children to let them work.
Then you would not allow your children to go to those factories under the present system, if it was not from necessity?
—No.
—Testimony given before the Sadler Committee, 1831–32
According to the passage, why does the witness allow his children to work in a place where they will be ill-treated?
(A)A factory owner is forcing him to do so. (B)He doesn’t earn enough on his own. (C)The children need discipline. (D)Their labor is only moderately difficult.
B