Fighting for Child Labor?

I was listening to War News Radio and they mentioned that a recent survey found that about  1/4 Afghan of children work.  The US has, for a long time, stood against child labor.  It seems obvious that if this statistic like this were true of the US, we would all do things to drastically change it to remove as many kids as possible from the workforce.

How, on the other hand, are we supposed to react to this clear violation of our morals in a nation that we are occupying.  Are we supposed to ignore this human rights violation or do something about it. Of course, as these situations usually are, it is not as simple as a mere decision to ban child labor in Afghanistan.

First of all, our government does not have the jurisdiction to pass laws in Afghan.  Aha, you may say, we have our lovely little puppet Karzai, as I blogged about in "A US Involvement..."  The problem with Karzai is that he still has to appeal to his warlord friends, many of whom use child labor. On top of that, many children represent a large percent of their family's income.

I can't think of a solution to the situation; take the kids out of work and they go to school but starve.  Leave the kids in work and they will never escape poverty without school.